Which is all perfectly fine with him. He'd rather be spared any awkwardness that comes from having to explain the blind lawyer thing all over again. It'd already been terrible enough having to deal with Edgeworth's surprise over that once.

"On how it happens, or what happened?"

Just to be absolutely sure on the politest way to go about filling in any details. It would only be right, so nobody bothered to do it for him, and he's still paying the price for that.