I should say that my face does a good impression of whiteness, late-entering or not. I didn't know how to tell [minor spoiler redacted] that I'd been tricking him, feature by feature. I wasn't sure I was ready to. He'd made, as people do, an assumption about me that left me room to maneuver. Later, when he found out the truth--as people do--he'd be unbalanced by his own mistake. Another person's unguardedness in that moment can be very useful, interpersonally, as long as you don't soften.

— The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Page 27)