"May be well known to you, but in this city everyone's a stranger. Nothing's obvious, 'part from what you can see, and all I see is a man wearing a mask."

He refrained from asking if Rorschach viewed him as filth. "Makes me wonder what you got to hide. Don't get me wrong, it ain't my business, but it still makes me wonder.

"If you ask me, I'm not the one guilty of concealment. I don't have an obligation to explain myself to every stranger who happens to cross my path, or shadow me."

Which...was what he suspected Rorschach had done. But that begged the question of why anyone would stalk a guy only to demand answers as if it's his birthright.