Notoriety of the right kind is the best way of disarming suspicion.
There is nothing so terrible as to live in an atmosphere of suspicion – to see eyes watching you and the love in them changing to fear – nothing so terrible as to suspect those near and dear to you – It is poisonous – a miasma.
If the spider lets the fly walk out too easily, the fly might suspect it was a put-up job.
Everyone concerned in them has something to hide.
An alibi, it is a very pestilential thing, and always open to the gravest suspicion.