The Poet smiled graciously at the abbot. "That’s all right, m’Lord," he said. "I don’t mind apologizing for you in the least. You apologize for me, I apologize for you, and isn’t that a fitting maneuver in charity and good will? Nobody need apologize for himself-which is always so humiliating. Using my system, however, everyone gets apologized for, and nobody has to do his own apologizing."