Berryman used the caesura, extra space that can serve to represent a pause or an interruption. In this case, the caesura creates a pause to ponder, however briefly, whether Henry is hiding himself, or something else. Or both. Other punctuation can be used to show the caesura, such as a dash, ellipsis, comma, a literal line break, etc. Note that just a few lines later Berryman employs another technique to a similar end, the ",—" combination.

Another caesura