She really does not want to know the truth; she's just kidding herself.
Hmmm - I seem to recall someone mentioning something along those lines once or twice.
I hadn't noticed, when I watched this period before, how neatly the writers managed the switches between plots - no tied-to-the-railroad-tracks cliffhangers for the day before a switch, just a startling announcement that can be mulled over. "Liz, you'll have to marry me." "I'm not Josette, I'm Maggie!" "Listen up, everybody, Jason and I are going to be married." I'm starting to like the in-and-outness of the Jason plot. It really makes sense to leave it on the back burner for a while, so everybody can have time to stew themselves up to a fever pitch, instead of everything going lickety-split for no good reason.
Well, this was before a certain executive producer went insane and decided that not just every day had to end with a cliffhanger, but practically every act had to as well. Yes, that often made the show extremely exciting - but it really should have been used in smaller doses as, say, the climaxes of storylines warranted because the downside of pacing the show that way day in and day out was that it often made the pacing of the show far too fast - so much so that if someone missed a day, or worse still, more than a day in a row, they often missed major plot points. The tried and true soap method for success was to pace a show exactly the way this period of DS is paced. And who knows, if that certain executive producer had kept to a few more of the tried and true soap methods that had worked so well in the past as well as for decades more to come, instead of racheting up things like the pacing to a fever's pitch, DS just might have lasted on the air much longer. But, alas, we'll never know...