You did. We'll say you did it on purpose, if it makes you feel better. I'll even say I appreciated the gesture.

[But that's up to him. No pressure. There's a practiced detachment, a faint smile, and an apparent utter lack of care about his own past.]

What happened is far away and irrelevant, isn't it? Are you clinging to it for some reason, or trying to intimidate me, perhaps? Or would you like to hear my take on the situation? The possibilities astound.