Premise:
"I much feared that it would be impossible." The other answered in a low voice that had a kind of hiss in it: "There were difficulties."
Hypothesis: We would have required a hundred men. The other agreed.

it is not possible to tell

Premise:
"74 "Count Stepanov, or some such," she remarked, and affecting a frank and unvarnished curiosity: "Who's he?""
Hypothesis: She had never seen him before.

it is not possible to tell

Premise:
"was it was just um dribble"
Hypothesis: Dribble was all it was.
yes