She could see right away that he was lying.
He backhandedly revealed her visitor's game.
Two masters of "mind-reading", neither of them is convinced by the other.
Until late one night, he held her wrist:
"I've analyzed a thousand people, but you - I can't count, and I don't want to."
Someone is manipulating every desperate person in the city, including her favorite visitor, including his dead father.
Break the situation side by side during the day, and fall at night.
The person in the dark has been waiting for this moment.