Yes. [The word is almost whispered; it's not easy for her to admit to fearing anything.] In the same way you have since that day, and a few new ones.
No one has had the pull over me that you seem to. Not even those I love. [He can make of that distinction what he will, be it relief or otherwise.] I am not the type of person who acts against what I know to be right. And yet I have.
[Will she again? If he hoisted her up on that piano would her disgust over his actions be enough to let her resist? She couldn't begin to guess.]