Greater, or at least more probable!
Jealousy has moved to such acts more frequently than mere
considerations of interest."
"To be sure it has," cried Manutoli; "I think that the circumstances
bear more conclusively against her than against him; I do, upon my
life."
"If only something do not turn up to show that it could not have
been done by her, I think--I do think that we have got all that is
absolutely necessary for us. For observe, Signor Barone, it is not
necessary that she should be convicted. If there is such a
probability that she may have been the criminal as to make it
impossible to say that it is far more likely that one of the parties
suspected should be guilty than the other, there can be no
conviction, and our friend is safe."
"But I say that all the probabilities are in favour of the
hypothesis that she did the deed," cried Manutoli, warmly.
"Much will depend on the report of Tomosarchi," said the lawyer.
"The inquiry arises, how far it was possible for a young girl to do
that which was done."
"It is evident that she was murdered in her sleep," observed the
Baron.
"It looks like it; it seems clear that there could have been no
struggle of any sort. Still, we must hear how the murder was done;
we must know whether the means were such as might have been in the
power of this girl," rejoined Fortini.
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