And that's when that embarrassing incident occurred, when I, forgetting my manners, interfered in your game. But your friend's wrong move wounded me like a knife in the heart. I acted purely instinctively in holding him back, reaching out impulsively, just as one, without pausing for thought, seizes hold of a child who is leaning over a railing. Only later did I realize the sheer lack of etiquette of which my rash self-assertion made me guilty."
