[Leslie considers this for a moment. It's true that she mightn't be able to rely on his description of who his targets were, and it is something that she hadn't really considered.
But her confidence in her conclusion doesn't waver and she speaks as casually as she might when talking about the weather.]
If you were going to hurt me, the look in your eyes would be different, wouldn't it? It doesn't look like you hate me enough to want to hurt me, and it's only been the two of us since I met you, so you wouldn't have been told to do it, either.
[Leslie's experience is, granted, limited to a relatively small number of people, who often acted on emotion and weren't especially skilled actors the few times they bothered to hide their disdain, but she still feels completely certain that she knows how that sort of thing goes.]
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But her confidence in her conclusion doesn't waver and she speaks as casually as she might when talking about the weather.]
If you were going to hurt me, the look in your eyes would be different, wouldn't it? It doesn't look like you hate me enough to want to hurt me, and it's only been the two of us since I met you, so you wouldn't have been told to do it, either.
[Leslie's experience is, granted, limited to a relatively small number of people, who often acted on emotion and weren't especially skilled actors the few times they bothered to hide their disdain, but she still feels completely certain that she knows how that sort of thing goes.]