"Ah, you know", was his utterly useless reply to the question as to why he was feeling guilty. He couldn't think of any way to explain his feelings without sounding like a fool. Maybe he was just that.

"I recall a bite back when I was a young man", he remembered for the first time in ages, intrigued that the younger Healer had guessed correctly. "It doesn't seem to be your first Doxy bite either?" She evidently knew what she was doing.