Yes, this was my point.

      Anthony  Stadlen

 

of course, Humbert lies about the old affair in order to get his way.

 

     Mary (mbutterfly)

 

 

In response to Joseph Aisenberg:

 

"To me it seems very obvious  Humbert could not possibly be the father of
Lolita (wouldn't he have mentioned  the interluding affair with Charlotte
during the Valeria section?--and anyway  such an affair would have been
physically impossible for him without special  motivation, considering Humbert's
condition). This was just a lie he  insinuated, which became a helpful rumor
that spread around Ramsdale,  apparently, as Jean attests. Presumably, in the
first instance. Firstly,  everything Humbert told the reporter presumably
made it into the column, which  Humbert calls "a shimmer of errors." Clearly
the picture he shows the Farlows  and the story behind it are a simple
fabrication as the phrase "a moment of  superb inspiration" tells us. Humbert says
either earlier or later that he  liked to think of Lolita as being his
daughter, with the presumption she's not  really. I don't think there's any room
for ambiguity here."