I should have been sorry to have never met you, so I suppose I must be glad of that.

[He sighs, well aware of the bitterness left from failure to strike at a moment like that. Hell, he had the opportunity more than Archie and far less cause, and he still hates himself for letting the chance pass.

But there is another issue at hand.]

Many men think of murder, Archie. Good men decide against it. Others...

Others try.

You're a better man than some for not having done it.