I understood that, Wendy. I never thought Lois was doing it deliberately to be cruel, any more than she was trying to be cruel in the earlier part when she accused him of engineering the entire fake world.
However, CC, I think this is a small problem. We finished the previous section with Lois apparently convinced that she and Clark were in the future. Then in this section, as Wendy pointed out, she's now convinced that it is a hoax instead, but we've never seen the change in her thoughts or feelings because we went straight into Silas's POV and only heard bits of L&C's argument. As a result, when I read this section, I was still operating under the previous section's attitudes and conclusions, so I didn't see Lois trying to help Clark. I could only see her tearing away his dream--after the last scene when she forced him to admit his love for her and then gave him confirmation of his dream.
I liked being in Silas's POV and finding out what it's like being one of L&C's descendents. But I think I needed to have a bit from Lois's POV before it.
