Your pretending--trying to pretend--that I would be doing you a favor in staying.

It is so--so clever.

I mean so cleverly kind.

But I can't help seeing through it, and I'm not going to accept hospitality I've no right to--stay here under false pretenses--pretend to be what I'm not--why what I couldn't even pretend to be!" she concluded with bitterness.
Katie was leaning forward, all keen interest.

"But do you know, I think you could.