try to
admit all
the
external
facts that
can’t be
avoided,
but will
seek other
explanations
of them,
will
introduce
some
special,
unexpected
turn, that
will give
them
another
significance
and put
them in
another
light.
Porfiry
might well
reckon
that I
should be
sure to
answer so,
and say I
had seen
them to
give an
air of
truth, and
then make
some
explanation.”
“But he
would have
told you
at once
that the
workmen
could not
have been
there two
