( Ah, but there's almost the edge of laughter cutting his mouth, a steely turn to his lips, disbelief obvious and plain —

For those, of course, possessed of sight. )

And was it gravity that propelled his belongings into your uninterested and grudging hands? ( Forgive his immediate and unending doubt. ) Were you entirely and wholly distraught to observe this gain that your hands unwittingly acquired?

( Is this, then, the spectacle of a young girl bemoaning the turn of fate that condemned her to theft by accident? How very droll. )