Pretend person or not, George actually did feel kind of bad for calling her crazy, especially given that she hadn't actually been crazy, just a figment of his imagination and he was playing the game wrong. What the hell had been in that swamp?! Caution: May cause psychotic hallucinations.
"Um," he said, feeling a little sheepish, "that she was crazy and I didn't know who she was and that she'd... kidnapped me?" Yeah, it sounded totally insane and horrible and thank goodness she wasn't real.