"We had no reason to suspect any other incident was going to occur," he said.

He smiled; now the incident was going to solve another problem for him.

This incident went all the way up to the board of directors.

And I said this incident cannot go without a response.

I thought, this little incident is not going to go away.

At first, the incident came and went without much clamor.

"Since we are all friends here, we'll let this morning's incident go without further comment."

As international incidents go, this is unlikely to prove a very serious one.

But we readers believe at the time that these incidents are going to matter, and the characters do, too.

By this standard, the incident could not have gone better.