Because, if she cannot answer that question, you will know this is only an illusion of your own mind, your own conscience or your own imagination.

如果她答不出来，你就知道这不过是幻想而已，这样她就会消失不见了。

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Where Clare had deposited them she did not know, and it mattered little, if it were true that she could only use and not sell them.

克莱尔把它们存在哪儿，她并不知道，这无关紧要，即使在她的手里，她也只能使用它们，而不能变卖它们。

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She had long wanted to behold these hidden glories, and to know the Laurence boy, who looked as if he would like to be known, if he only knew how to begin.

她曾经渴望拥有这个保藏，渴望认识那个男孩劳伦斯，看起来他也颇希望跟人交往呢，要是他知道怎么开始就好了。

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And she just shook her head and she said, "Peter, Peter, Peter. You know that effect only works " if I think you're competent first."

她摇了摇头，无奈地说，“彼特，彼特，彼特，，你知道要达到这个效果,首先我得认为你能干“

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