There may be some mistake about it.

Of course, it's possible.

She had worked for my father for six months at the time--she could have been placed there for a purpose.

Her testimony was of the sort that the jury could take either as for me or against me; she established, as an eyewitness, that we had quarreled and that the mallet played a part in it.

Naturally, though, I looked to her as my friend.