Were he a more moral man, the fact that Ned seems to implicitly believe what he says to be entirely without guile might produce some sense of guilt in him. People rarely take him at his word when he talks about gambling; most of them either assume that anyone who runs a card game is generally cheating -- true, to some extent -- or that their card game masks other, more nefarious activities -- true, unequivocally. Ned, however, seems to accept that Meyer's special form of crime (though of course he hadn't described it as crime) is actually done out of some sense of altruism. It's not guilt that fills him for so easily having tricked this man, but a certain sense of wonder; how can anyone be so trusting?

"I bet making pie's a pretty satisfying job. Nobody could hate a guy who feeds them stuff like this." He gestures with his fork to the nearly devoured piece of apple pie, pausing before he takes the last bite so that he can savor it. The unspoken message is, of course, that people can (and do) hate him in his line of work, but then, that would probably be true even if he were simply a card shark -- people hated losing money.

It's obvious from the conversation thus far that he's not necessarily going to drag any additional information about Charlie into the discussion than what's absolutely necessary. He has the feeling from the cautious way Ned asked about him that he might be more frightened of Charlie than he ever was of Meyer -- this is a common response, even back home, although occasionally a misguided one -- and he doesn't want to bring up any lingering resentment or anger at being kidnapped.