[ The regret of not taking Lascelles as a threat from the very start is one Childermass knows all too well. ]

Wrong choice in friends I'll grant you, but I never found much fault in his apprentices. [ And as there's only one of those, well, that's as close as a compliment as Strange is bound to get from him. ] Even if they have been troublesome from time to time.

[ Okay, maybe only half a compliment. ]