premise: I don't like him we don't gee together somehow but he's pretty cute, and I guess he wouldn't quit if there was any chance of success now, would he?" Tuppence felt rather uncomfortable, but clinging to her belief that Julius also had withheld something from her, she remained firm.
hypothesis: "I don't feel positive about him and we do not work well together but he is attractive and will stick to a task if it will end well," Tuppence offered feeling embarrassed and maintaining her notion that Julius was hiding something.