"Tommy busted my dolly... I hitted him over the head with it.' The time to back out was the instant you got there, for you saw at once that their customs and manners were not yours.  Instead you stayed, and enjoyed the favors of one goddess - and behaved yourself as a god toward her - in short, you learned the score, and they knew it.  It seems to me that Mike's error lay only in accepting your hypocrisy as solid coin.  But he does have the weakness - a godlike one - of never doubting his 'water brothers' - but even Jove nods - and his weakness - or is it a strength? - comes from his early training; he can't help it.  No, Ben, Mike behaved with complete propriety; the offense against good manners lay in your behavior."