The only way she could have got it, she says, was from her husband, whom she had presumed faithful.
Perhaps when she learned that the bombing of Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant had killed 15 and not 8, as she had presumed.
She said she had presumed that Dr. Bailey was guilty and, after meeting him through a mutual friend, had decided to investigate for herself.
Throughout the town on Friday, residents held on to the good news out of the nursing home — any good news, like the story of a woman who saw a neighbor she had presumed dead walk through the doors of the town's post office, which was open for business and became a sort of joyous gathering spot.
The press release from William Heinemann (Mockingbird's original UK publisher), now an imprint of Penguin Random House, includes a statement from Lee saying that she had presumed the earlier draft lost, but that her lawyer "and dear friend" Tonja Carter found it among some papers this autumn.
While listening to families scream and shout around her, she felt overwhelmed and "not at all serene" as she had presumed she would.
There she was resolute; she had never been aware that Gerard was a priest, she had presumed he was a "Catholic gentleman", and she did not know of his whereabouts.
Once she gets word from a relative that Sophie is not dead, as she had presumed, but living with former neighbors in Siberia, Lillian burns with a mother's fever, and the quest is on.
Nurnberg said the reclusive Lee, who has not spoken to the press in more than 50 years, "was surprised when the manuscript, which she had presumed long lost, was found last August.
However, Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh has presumed Sha'arawi's description to be partly apocryphal.
Margaret Salinger's memoir, "Dream Catcher" (2000), to which Slawenski is heavily indebted, quotes great swatches of the prose, but she may have presumed that even J.
