The one injury was uncertain; the other was a fact.
What rendered it all the more obscure was the absence of any previous grounds of suspicion.

Rachel had never been observed to be on terms of intimacy with any one.

Luke Roy had been anxious to court her, as Verner's Pride knew; but Rachel had utterly repudiated the wish.

Luke it was not.

And who else was there?
The suspicions of Mr.Verner veered, almost against his will, towards those of his own household.