were she , on the other hand , to put beths welfare ahead of all else , she would have to sacrifice leonard , either by telling beth the truth , about everything , by exposing leonard for what he wasalthough that , she knew , beth would never , not in a million years , believeor by explaining what beth had seen some other way , some wayand she had no idea which way that would be , possession perhaps , or some other aberrationthat beth could understand , could believe .