"I may be a stranger to the grounds of your belief.
Pleyel loaded me with indecent and virulent invectives, but he
withheld from me the facts that generated his suspicions. Events
took place last night of which some of the circumstances were of an
ambiguous nature. I conceived that these might possibly have
fallen under his cognizance, and that, viewed through the mists of
prejudice and passion, they supplied a pretense for his conduct,
but believed that your more unbiased judgment would estimate them
at their just value. Perhaps his tale has been different from what
I suspect it to be. Listen, then, to my narrative. If there be
anything in his story inconsistent with mine, his story is false."
I then proceeded to a circumstantial relation of the incidents of
the last night. Wieland listened with deep attention. Having
finished, "This," continued I, "is the truth. You see in what
circumstances an interview took place between Carwin and me. He
remained for hours in my closet, and for some minutes in my
chamber. He departed without haste or interruption. If Pleyel
marked him as he left the house, (and it is not impossible that he
did,) inferences injurious to my character might suggest themselves
to him.
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