But, as it seemed to him in retrospect, he had always felt that the queer man at the Wades' must be John Pellerin, if only for the negative reason that he couldn't imaginably be any one else.

但是，在他看来，回想起来，他直觉得韦德个怪定是约翰·佩勒林，即使只是出于消极原因，他也无法想象成为其他任何。