"While I would expect no less of you, I still appreciate it," he said. "What you said... it meant a lot to me. To that version of me." The expectations he lived under, back at Camelot, had begun from a very young age, and while he was used to it by now, it had been difficult to handle as a boy.
Although he regretted very little of it, he could have used a friend like her back then.