If you were a shadowy, anonymous figure, it made sense to pretend everything had gone according to some diabolical plan. Never mind if it hadn't.

“Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?'His father di…”

“Men wouldn't ask any such thing. They'd already know what caught my eye. He whi…”

“Ned waved him off and studied the map in front of him. That sense of unease rem…”

“He felt as if he'd woken up, weak and confused, only to be told that he'd spent…”