I was too busy watching my other self to take notice." "But he saw you." "Most likely so.

I acknowledge my negligence.

I should have done better, the chances are, had I thought it would have been of interest to you--pardon me.

Just my bungling wit.

The truth is, I was too much of a greenhorn to hold my own and spare glances on my neighbors." So Corliss went away, glad that he had not spoken, and keenly appreciating St.Vincent's craft whereby he had so adroitly forestalled adverse comment by telling the story in his own modest, self-effacing way.
Two men and a woman! The most potent trinity of factors in the creating of human pathos and tragedy! As ever in the history of man, since the first father dropped down from his arboreal home and walked upright, so at Dawson.