She takes his hand again easily, patting at his sympathetically.

"I do," she says, "Perhaps not-- indefinitely, but I would've been better. I would've known better when I needed to step back and let someone else take charge and not-- feel so guilty about it. And I wouldn't've-- impacted my personal relationships quite so much, so I would've had a better support network when the time came."

Not that all her personal relationships had been damaged, or that all of the fallout had been strictly because of her. Still, though.