While I felt sincerely obliged to him for being so interested and considerate, I had an odd half-provoked sense of suspicion upon me, that if Joe had been coming to see him, he wouldn't have been quite so brisk about it.

虽然我真诚地感谢他如此关心和体贴，但我对自己有一种奇怪的半挑剔的怀疑，如果乔来看他，他就不会这么快活了。