"I don't pretend to know how it can be; how she got here, or what she has been doing here, dressed in silk finery, or what she may have been masquerading with matches in the old house over there for.

All I know is, a girl who treated Bates as she did--" "No, you don't know any of these things.

You have only heard one side of the story.

It is not fair to judge." "She has ruined his life, done as good as killed him.

Why should you take her part ?" "Because there are always two sides to everything.