They could not understand it, but they did not believe him guilty.

Isabel Marlay believed in Albert's innocence as she believed the hard passages in the catechism.

She knew it, she believed it, she could not prove it, but she would not hear to anything else.

She was sure of his innocence, and that was enough.

For when a woman of that sort believes anything, she believes in spite of all her senses and all reason.