They are bringing unreasonable pressure to bear upon those countries that they consider to be offending them, making slanders and false charges concerning the “nuclear threat”, “human rights violations” and “terrorist States”, while they simply wink at the wrongful actions of those countries considered to be obedient to their directives.

There's no need to be offended.

Well, I'll try not to be offended.

There's no reason to be offended, sir.

- Now you're looking for an excuse to be offended?

And I chose not to be offended by it.

Anyway, what right would I have to be offended?

I don't know whether to be offended or impressed.

I'm trying hard not to be offended, Home Secretary.

- Where was I supposed to be offended within that remark?

I don't even know what I'm supposed to be offended by.

Because I was not offended by the rudeness of your questions?

Thus she had to go around for several days in a row visiting everyone in town, because some were offended that others had been shown preference, and thus turns were arranged, so that she was expected at each house beforehand and everyone knew that on such-and-such a day Marfa Petrovna would read the letter in such-and-such a house, and for each reading people even gathered who had heard the letter several times already, in their own homes and in their friends' as well.