It was a mad act, and I believe you were partly mad at the time." "I think so myself now that I look back.

I think now that I must have been mad all along.

It never once entered my mind to doubt that it was you, and now I see plainly enough that except what the man said about going away--and anyone might have said that--there was not a shadow of ground or suspicion against you.

But even if I had never had that suspicion I should have left home.
"Why, sir, I know that my own father and mother suspected that I killed her.

I resented it at the time.