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，在他看来，回想起来，他一直德家的那个怪男人一定·佩勒林，即使只出于消极的原因，他也无法想象成为其他任何人。