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Had he not come to the office too late, too near closing time? Had I not been interrupted, when preparing to leave the office early? To me he had been understood as no more than an annoyance, an inconvenience, delaying me, interfering with my intended early departure. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 9, Sentence #16)

And I had not known that the tall, sullen, complacent stranger who had entered the office late that summer afternoon was not a man of my world, but a Gorean. Had I known then what I knew now I would have immediately knelt in his presence, fearfully, and put my head to his feet. But I had treated him as a man of Earth, briefly and badly, treated him curtly, rudely, impatiently, contemptuously. Had he not come to the office too late, too near closing time? Had I not been interrupted, when preparing to leave the office early? To me he had been understood as no more than an annoyance, an inconvenience, delaying me, interfering with my intended early departure. What my employers did not know would not hurt them. It was summer. Did we not often leave early? It was not unusual. - (Plunder of Gor)