 Given that the butler’s suspicion is not about the accident, there is a sense in which this belief attribution is not true. It seems infelicitous, if not outright false. This suggests that our imagined assertion of (14) makes a claim about a particular situation that the suspicion is about. In the context of the story, that situation is the one everyone was talking about, and where the judge was rescued from the ditch. Since the butler has no suspicion about such a situation, the person who uttered (14) said something infelicitous or false. If (14) simply said that the butler suspected that there was a situation where Milford saved the judge’s life, the assertion would be true. There is support for the Austinian perspective on assertions and attitude ascriptions, then.