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more positive about Davenant's innocence. What I mean is this: isn't the strength of the prima facie evidence for his guilt the strongest possible test of her belief in Davenant's innocence?"

"Credo quia impossibile, you mean? Well, personally, I don't attach very much importance to the lady's feelings."

"I think that's very inconsistent of you, Gordon. Only the other day you were saying you would rather trust the evidence of people than the evidence of things."

"But her feelings aren't evidence. I'm willing enough to trust in what she knows about Davenant; but I'm not willing to trust in what she says she thinks she has persuaded herself to think she knows about Davenant. And that is about the correct description, I should say, for a woman's intuition."

"Oh, come! You must have a little more imagination than that."

"Well, look here, she says she trusts her intuitions, and wants you to trust them. She says she always does trust them and they never fail her. Now, this is the woman who, with her eyes open, went and married a dirty little sharper like Brotherhood. If women's intuitions were worth anything, wouldn't she have had an intuition which told her she was throwing herself away on a nasty little worm?"

"Well, let's leave her intuitions alone. I want to start out with an absolutely unbiassed mind, with

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