Having gone home to smiles and the psychological boost of breaking their duck on Sunday the question being asked was whether that fourth race win had been swings and roundabouts or the turning of the tide.
Plato's Symposium instructively ends with everyone except Socrates having gone home, fallen asleep, or gotten drunk: a true philosopher, it is implied, can hold his liquor.
He joined Arnold before Quebec on Dec. 2 with only 300 of his original 1,200 men, the others having gone home when their enlistments ran out.
It was the self-mocking joke Riley could tell and they both could enjoy after Wade, having gone home again following unfulfilling detours to Chicago and Cleveland, was given the send-off he deserved.
With the Williams sisters having gone home to heal and the defending champion Maria Sharapova long forgotten after her third-round upset, this prime-time final lacked the glamour and rancor of a big-time rivalry.
It wouldn't be the way I did it, and it would not be the way I would organise things, but if Anderson thinks he can get over those flights, and he is going to be in a happier frame of mind having gone home, then that is fine.
