When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.
No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
... obsessions are always dangerous.
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!