"You can mistake words and explanations a good deal easier than you can mistake an atmosphere.

No, Dave, I tell you that there's something odd about it--married or not, Lucy didn't BELIEVE herself married the last time I saw her." "But she MUST have known," says the doctor, as much to himself as to the colonel.

"She MUST have known." Any one could of told by the way he said it that he wasn't lying.

I could see that Colonel Tom believed in him, too.

They was both sicking their intellects onto the job of figgering out how it was Lucy didn't know.