“I know.” She does. “And I know.” She does. When Michael said he liked her, and she said she liked him, too, she'd accepted right then that they could never really be anything in the eyes of the law. For years, she'd thought that. They're taking an enormous risk doing this, but the possibility that it might work means that they have to. It would be awful not to take the chance.
But there's nothing she can say that will make the bitterness of the moment any better for Sinclair; there's nothing she can do for him. After a moment she reaches over and holds his hand.