"I rather thought that you weren't."
"Why?"
"There is more to any person than a physical presence; there is an aura, a personality, a being. And I was almost sure the first time I met you that I had never met you before. There was nothing in you that I recognised, although you have many things in common with Patrick as well as your appearance."
"And you did nothing about it!"
"What do you suggest that I should have done? Your lawyer, your family, and your friends had all accepted and welcomed you. I had no evidence to show that you were not Patrick. Nothing but my own belief that you weren't. What good would it have done to express my disbelief? It did not seem to me that it would be long before the situation resolved itself without my interference."
"You mean: that I should be found out."
"No. I mean that you did not seem to me someone who would be happy in the life you had chosen. Judging by your visit to-night, I was right."
"But I didn't come here to-night just to confess to not being Patrick."
"No?"
"No, that is only-I had to tell you that because it was the only way you could understand what has-I wish my mind was clearer. I've been walking about trying to get things straight."