Doesn't work if it's just a "maybe." You have to be certain, or you'll simply start second-guessing yourself about this instead.
[He pauses, spreads butter on his toast while he turns this over in his head. It's the most improbable answer, certainly, but it's also the simplest, the only one that accounts for everything.
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[He pauses, spreads butter on his toast while he turns this over in his head. It's the most improbable answer, certainly, but it's also the simplest, the only one that accounts for everything.
Not to mention the most interesting.]