I am saying this to you in confidence, Iago -- Henry West and I were not on poor terms before this port. He and I have been here for an equal length of time, and we have almost always been friends. Once even more than that. As such, I understand certain things about him that he will not disclose to others.

But telling and seeing are two different things. And since I am having trouble separating that port from the man I've known these last two years -- you can imagine the difficulty, I should hope. I can tell you that before that port, there have been perhaps one, maybe two incidences, out of two years of knowing one another, where he has not listened to my council, and none that we came to harsh words over where we did not seem to immediately reconcile. I had good reason to be concerned.