[He smiles a little ruefully.]

You are all making Mollymauk feel very sorry for abandoning you. But I don't think you can make him feel sorrier than Beauregard can. The same thing happened to me.

[Fall gave him the puppy eyes, but so did Beau, and she won.]

. . . I was very sorry about it, what happened. I know he and Beauregard fought but he was always very, uhm, sweet to me.