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[ Thirty seconds of tuneless humming--beeeeeeeeep! ]

[ He is about to tell her - if he believed this story, it would be child's play to induce Gilbert to believe it.

At which point he realizes he doesn't actually have to tell her his plan. ]

Why don't you want him to know?

[She has to take a moment to decide how best to explain this.]

I'd have to explain where we met if I did, right? I mean, I tried to lie to Oz about it, and I wasn't good enough, he figured it out anyways. So it's not like I could fool Gilbert. And having to tell him is like...

If someone came to you and told you you'd lived for years in a world that you have no memory of, that'd freak you out, right? You wouldn't know what to think. I don't want him to feel like that.

Ha! Ha! Ha!

My dear Miss Ahiru, Gilbert never knows what to think! And he's in a constant state of being, er, "freaked out." So we should simply tell him what to think. In my experience, that's what has always worked out for the best.