Meetings, and a Diagnosis construed as chivalric
Gately never recollects hearing the word AA; all he remembers from the time is just ‘Meetings’ and a Diagnosis he’d construed as chivalric.
Context
The Program's self-effacement rendered through Gately's memory: the word AA never quite spoken, only "Meetings" and "a Diagnosis he'd construed as chivalric" — the anonymity built so deep into the practice that even the name recedes, leaving the newcomer with a disease-label he half-hears as something knightly.