[If he's troubled by the possible situation with Klavier any he's certainly doing a great job of disregarding the sympathy - and if he's not...well, he has reason to disregard it, then, doesn't he; either way, clearly we have more important things to worry about for the time being.]

Well, if nothing else, the incident with Miss Hawthorne seems to have implied that we shouldn't concern ourselves with anything outside of playing the game - there's no understanding any of it and somehow I doubt there's much defeating it, either, particularly not from this side.

Fortunately, if we continue to do as well as we have been - for a given understanding of "doing well" - this will all be over shortly; the hateful thing actually told me how we're expected to win.