Heads, I win.

Hear Thou our plaint, when light is gone / And lawlessness and strife prevail. / Hear, lest the whelming weight of crime / Wreck us with life in view; / Lest thoughts and schemes of sense and time / Earn us a sinner's due.

On the credibility scale, “We owe you one,” is right up there with, “The check is in the mail.”

It was fortunate for Mr. and Mrs. Mann—the names were noms de voyage—that they left us so soon.