[A small, wane smile, as if he knows what she's thinking.]

You've made yourself clear, and I don't doubt the sincerity. But it would be a lie to say it didn't exist.

[He looks away again.]

Maybe not now... Maybe not next time... But I'm not the only one who has been suffering. And sometimes I wonder if you would have been better off if not for me.

[It's a dark, depressing thought, made worse by how calmly he's talking about it. As if it's not the first time it's popped into his head.

But five times.

Five times they've been through this.

And then there were other times where she's had to help him.

Really, it's not so strange for him to wonder if he was somehow cursed. And it's not so strange to believe it with the kind of world they live in.]