I didn't offer my life to him. [A beat.] I wouldn't have. It is short-sighted and ill-advised to give into the wishes of criminals.

I simply...

[Feel guilty. He can't quite finish that statement - even now, he feels it's impossibly foolish and petty and stupid for him to complain about something as inconsequential as his feelings - but he's at least able to hint at it.]

Well.