Premise: huh so you just basically went home when you had a chance

Hypothesis: I wish I could do that.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: Well, I'm damned! he said.

Hypothesis: He was sueperised so he said I'm damned.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: Stage One is assimilating the enormity of what I have to do.

Hypothesis: Stage One is telling me what I've already done.
Answer: no

Premise: You are Don Cazar's good friend, Don Reese, his compadre of many years.

Hypothesis: You are a friend of Don Cazar's friend, Don Reese.
Answer: yes