You were right to doubt me! If I heard that one of my messenger-girls in Privkat were to be shot by a stranger, and when I went out to her aid she would not leave his side? Ai, more than doubt. You did not know our friend could not have shot me had his own life depended on it.
You were an instrument of fate, there is nothing to be sorry for.
Will you bring me a length of blue cloth, or a blanket - anything, so long as it is blue?