"Well yes, but-" But this was different! This was living through it, this was- If Regulus ever went back, he would be going back to die. The boy shouldn't even have lived as long as he had, simply by virtue of being here! Remus knew he had been a Death Eater, but surely if the Order had had anything to do with his death, it would have been public knowledge as soon as it happened. One of them would have come forward as having done the deed, but that wasn't the case. Someone else had killed him.
Remus could see, when he once again looked sideways at the boy, that he was terribly uncomfortable. "In that case..." and resting his chin in his hand, Remus thought things over. "I guess, to be even, I'll have to tell you that I fell asleep in a bus station. It was freezing out, and I couldn't stop shivering. The bus station was heated and I couldn't be so easily distinguished from the travelers. When I appeared here, I thought it was one of the clerks there telling me to get out."