[A pause.] Yeah, actually, you kind of were? When you read between the lines a little and when you aren't pretending you're God. [There's a teasing grin but okay yeah, moving on.]

I don't know how it affected your game when you guys played before us, but I do remember you telling me that we caused our end-game much sooner. [He's avoiding saying a key word here i.e. "reckoning" because he's not sure he wants to remind the girls exactly what that means.]

So I can guess why we played the game. But what was your guys' excuse? Any ideas?