reasoned

Vincent Spaulding did what he could to cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the whole thing.

“You reasoned it out beautifully,” I exclaimed in unfeigned admiration.

So I reasoned with myself in the morning, and I tell you the direction of my suspicions, however much the result may have shown that they were unfounded.

I reasoned thus—money, time, and fatigue are nothing compared with the reputation and interests of a whole family; probabilities will not suffice, only facts will justify a deadly combat with a friend.