Lanse reaches over and gives Galade's arm a little squeeze, a kind of thank you. He takes another breath. "I know all that. I just... wanted her gone. Once I knew about you-- thought, now and then, of takin' you from her, but I couldn't see what good that'd do any of us. So I just-- That's why I left you alone, you know? Not because-- that's why. She wanted you, that seemed enough."