Would you really have listened? [ mildly. ] The way you listened to her?
[ his train of thought is wandering, muddying. he doesn't like it, but Peony has this way of making him feel-- ...well, of making him feel. ]
You've never really put much thought into my -- sentiments. [ somehow, an easier word than "feelings". ] If you had, perhaps you would have... realized. [ and there's that word again, realized. ]