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，回，他一直觉得韦德家的那个怪男人一定是约翰·佩勒林，是出于消极的原因，他也无法象成为其他任何人。