Given 'Then, all the time, it was in the spill vase in Mrs. Inglethorp's bedroom, under our very noses? I cried. ', does 'You mean we were so near it constantly?' exist in a neutral realm, neither confirming nor denying the premise?
Then, all the time, it was in the spill vase in Mrs. Inglethorp's bedroom, under our very noses? I cried. ###You mean we were so near it constantly?