(And that's the thing, isn't it? It isn't. Not necessarily in terms of hubris or presumptuousness, but that the thought is foreign. It is not natively his, in that while the foundations of the guilt are all homegrown, the unchecked wilds of it--the arguments, the shoddy logic--those were imposed. Repeated at him under duress until they stuck. Zivia is in conversation with Mulcahy as much as she is with Number 2 himself. And it is certainly not his line.)
It takes some real effort of will to get the question out.
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It takes some real effort of will to get the question out.
"May I ask you to elaborate on that?"