If nothing else, it was slightly comforting that she agreed with him about the X-Men and the Brotherhood. Neither of them really had his faith right then.
"Maybe I could have done something else. At the time? I didn't see it. But there might have been something else." His hands dropped to the desk, fingers tapping against the top absently. His eyebrows raised at her final comment, and he actually turned to face her then. "No...you didn't need to get involved in this."