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What's with 'I could almost more easily believe...'


Just curious, what do you think Catherine wanted to tell the doctor and Francis when she said: "I could almost more easily believe... that... nothing... I spoke without thought"?

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replace "nothing: with "nevermind".

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No, I just scrolled to that part again. She clearly says "nothing". :) The point of this thread (and of my question) is what do you think she had in mind (what is that that she "could almost more easily believe...") and kept that in secret.

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No, I just scrolled to that part again. She clearly says "nothing". :)


He wasn't claiming that she said "nevermind", but simply stating that this is what she meant. In other words, replace "nothing" with "nevermind" and the meaning is the same. I know that doesn't answer your real question, but I still felt the need to explain that he wasn't claiming this to be what she actually said.

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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

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Yes you're right, sorry... I totally missed the point. :((

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That's the way pompous, nose-in-the air people who have corn cobs up their butts talk....

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I think she was going to say that she could more easily believe it WAS the ghost of Elizabeth.

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I think maybe she wanted to do a ...................... never mind

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Exactly, that's what she was going to say, that it was easier to believe Elizabeth's ghost was really haunting her brother than the idea that a servant could be doing it to him.

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Exactly, that's what she was going to say, that it was easier to believe Elizabeth's ghost was really haunting her brother than the idea that a servant could be doing it to him.


I agree. She was inclined to believe that Elizabeth's ghost had returned, but then thought better of herself and opted not to continue with the thought. Hasn't anyone here every started to say something and then decided that it would not be appropriate?

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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

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That's what I guessed.

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I thought it was I could almost easily believe...she wasn't dead.

Which she realized the doctor himself assessed it so couldn't be the case.

But it turns out she was right all along.

Remember she will trust family, over a doctor she barely knows.

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"But it turns out she was right all along."

Similarly, Elisabeth's brother, Francis, insists that his sister was "strong-willed" and not given to morbid fancies. HE WAS RIGHT! But to the very end of the film, he NEVER found out she was also a lying, conniving, scheming, manipulative two-timing B****. (Or, that she had faked her own death and was still alive... though not for long. "No one will ever enter than chamber again.")

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