From the outside, alter-Estha again looks pensive and is silent for a time, after the culturally signaled fashion of somebody who is carefully hearing out your evidence and trying to update all of his hypotheses about it.

Finally alter-Estha says in colloquial Baseline, "Thank you very much, Merrin; that combination of replies refutes every hypothesis that I had."

"Was there, in your memories, a reason why your masochism was a secret?  And if so, what was that reason?"

From the outside, alter-Estha again looks pensive and is silent for a time, after the culturally signaled fashion of somebody who is carefully hearing out your evidence and trying to update all of his hypotheses about it.

Finally alter-Estha says in colloquial Baseline, "Thank you very much, Merrin; that combination of replies refutes every hypothesis that I had."

"Was there, in your memories, a reason why your masochism was an infohazard?  And if so, what was that reason?"

From the outside, alter-Estha again looks pensive and is silent for a time, after the culturally signaled fashion of somebody who is carefully hearing out your evidence and trying to update all of his hypotheses about it.

Finally alter-Estha says in colloquial Baseline, "Thank you very much, Merrin; that combination of replies refutes every hypothesis that I had."

"Was it the case, in your memories, that the truth about your masochism was not only secret but an infohazard?  And if so, what was the reason?"

From the outside, alter-Estha again looks pensive and is silent for a time, after the culturally signaled fashion of somebody who is carefully hearing out your evidence and trying to update all of his hypotheses about it.

Finally alter-Estha says in colloquial Baseline, "Thank you very much, Merrin; that combination of replies refutes every hypothesis that I previously had."

"Was it the case, in your memories, that the truth about your masochism was not only secret but an infohazard?  And if so, what was the reason?"