"By then innocent people will have paid the price. You're willing to risk their lives to protect some insane woman?" He shook his head, disbelieving. "Don't underestimate the Ministry's power," he warned, as a finish.
He almost sighed in relief as she finally began to see how dumb it all really was. "It's fine. It's not your fault; everyone gets confused once in a while. Of course it's not true. How could anything like that really happen? It's improbable," he said reassuringly. He would have reached out, took her hand or something, but he was still frustrated about her not telling him who her confidant was.