To quote Queen Gertrude "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" - where he is the lady in question here.
I think I represent the consensus view where this amount of gas-lighting means that he's hiding something that he thinks is big.
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells