Hearts And Hands by O. Henry is a short story about a young, naive woman in the upper class who meets a two men handcuffed to each other on a train. She turns out knowing one of the young men and is worried for a moment that the man that she looks up to and respects. the other man ends up actually being the marshal and the other one turned out to be the criminal.
Miss Fairchild, the lady, is most likely in the upper class as with the fake Mr. Easton. Miss Fairchild doesn’t want to believe that the person she knows and respects is actually the criminal even though signs point to the fact that he is the criminal. Miss Fairchild and the rest of the upper class doesn’t like to think that other people with that kind money and prestige would do crime. That means that if other people of their class are willing to do a crime that means that they are also able to do this crime.
In conclusion people of the upper class don’t like to think that their own class could commit crime. Their judgement becomes clouded and they don’t want to believe that they are capable of committing crime.