"I'm not. If I were I should let you go on thinking I lied. You see, I didn't know it was true. I didn't know I was the girl."
"You didn't know?"
"How could I when he never said a word?"
"I can't understand your not seeing it."
"Would you like me better if I had seen it?"
"N-no…. But I wish you hadn't told me. Why did you?"
"I was only trying to break the shock. You thought I couldn't be old enough to be that girl. I meant you to do a sum in your head: 'If she was that girl and she was seventeen, then she must be thirty-nine now.'"
"Is that what you smashed up our evening for?"
"Yes."
"I shouldn't care if you were fifty-nine. I'm forty-five."