"You saw no point in putting yourself at risk," Alistair corrected flatly, no anger or disappointment in his tone. "I know why you didn't, Senator. It wasn't... I don't need an explanation. You just..."
Alistair stopped and shifted to lean back against the arm rest. He took a moment to collect his thoughts, of which there were numerous and all of them fuzzy.
"It would have been privileged communications," he finally said with the same blurry absentia, then added a little more humanly, "I would never have said anything."