Take the following as truth: Dorcas, faithful to her "young gentlemen," denied strenuously that it could have been John's voice she heard, and 142 resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress. 
Then the following statement: "Dorcas fiercely defended the character of her beloved John." is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: True