"My fault, " he said, not once but many times.

Not his fault, right; the judge had said so.

"Ain't none of it our fault," he said, and the girl felt his eyes probing the darkness, looking for her.

"Not our fault if he doesn't read his own orders carefully," said Toby briskly.

And this is all your fault, Mona's frozen tone said.

The fault lies in the rest of the world, particularly the West, where the truth can be known and said.

My fault, I should have checked him the minute he said he was feeling funny, but there was so much else going on.

"Not his fault," says the ship anxiously, as if his identity were also involved and must clear itself of guilt.

"Entirely my fault, I'm afraid," the stranger was saying.

"His only fault," Miller said, "is that he's too tall."