Stiff necks

[igenlode]

Apologies between two men proud to a fault, to be passed on via a third party:

"I cannot blame him for disbelieving my veracity—however much, being only human, I resent it."

"To this hour I do not see how I could have believed in his good faith."

:-P

And yet the regret is clearly very genuine for both of them; it is the admission that is so difficult...