Marmaduke , in Maud − Evelyn ( 1900 ) , builds his whole life out of materials g . uppl ied by an imaginative piecemeal recreation of a personal past in which he in fact never lived . Mr . and Mrs . DetTick are elderly peoplc whose daughtcr died at fourteen years of age . When they meet Marmaduke , they think that he would have been a perfect husband for their dead daughter Maud ・ Evelyn . They give financial aid to him and he cventua 且 ly comes to live in their house. Then , as the years go by

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... , the three of thcm by degrees remold the past . Marmaduke is gradua 且 且 y persuaded by the Dctricks to act as if , first , he had met Maud − Evelyn before she died, then as if hc had becn engagcd to marry her , then as if he had marricd her and lived with her for s【 ) me time befoTe heτ death. This imagined past is quite real t, o Marmaduke , but it is unbelievable to readers 、 My purpose in this paper is to clarify wha 【makes the unbelievable be且 ievable in this tale . (1 )