[She can't have been here terribly long, he thinks, if she can ask a question like that in earnest. He does observe her for a few moments, though as if testing that hypothesis with the pause in speech.

Some of the others? Well, then.]

One of my first experiences on arriving here was having my entire life overlaid with memories of another which was not mine, along with everyone else here. We lived quite obliviously in this manner until several of us began to realise that something was amiss.