"A little, yeah." He spread out his hands. "Look, I ah, I knew this woman once, who very terrible about her choices in men. I mean, She dated me and thought I was the most sweet man in the universe, one that the world did completely wrong.

"That is most of her boyfriends. I got so she would tell me about an ex, and the first thing I would ask is, 'What did he do?' She met them as a lawyer, meant to make the world a better place in her career, and instead she is in love with saving us bad symptoms of it."

"Or maybe you don't like well-spoken sad men who smile a lot." He did notice those similarities between Niles and Belloq, and the way he said it along with the tense roll of his shoulder showed he was still a little unsettled. "In any case, he has good personality but is still a symptom of a bad world."