What are the laws of evidence to her! She believes with the _heart_.
Poor Mrs.Plausaby, too, sat down in a dumb despair, and wept and complained and declared that she knew her Albert had notions and such things, but people with such notions wouldn't do anything naughty.

Albert wouldn't, she knew.

He hadn't done any harm, and they couldn't find out that he had.

Katy was gone, and now Albert was in trouble, and she didn't know what to do.

She thought Isa might do something, and not let all these troubles come on her in this way.