only-half-intelligible

Updated: May 8, 2025

'But a witness, exclaimed Lady Falconer, 'whose evidence is based on the only-half-intelligible gossip of a Spanish serving-woman made twenty-five years ago, and a week spent in an out-of-the-way mountain-village where she was ill nearly the whole time! Mr. Semple waved aside protests.

S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan - Peter and Jane: or The Missing Heir