If all I take from this is to know that-- I will go back to my grave with peace I did not have.

But perhaps it's my ego, as much as anything else. Perhaps I had rather think of such things than think myself dragged forth from that end to play the puppet in an awful game.

--I don't think your acts on the bridge were wasted, you know. The young man who spoke of games and patterns, I think he approaches it wisely.