Question
a procury.
Tokubei saw what I was staring at and he
became even paler. At this stage we had both
considered the possibility that a hoax of some
sort had been played on us. The torn screen
convinced Tokubei that
our host had not played a
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joke: the owner of a
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Why was Tokubei
convinced that the
valuable painting would
host was not just
never vandalize it for a
playing a joke?
trivial reason.
As for me, I was far more disturbed by the
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Answer
Tokubei was convinced that the host was not just playing a joke because of the torn screen, which indicated that someone had actually tried to break in and steal the valuable painting.