Bax winced at Miriam's blunt reply, though supposed he shouldn't have expected anything less. "That's... unfortunate." And it hit Bax a little harder than it should have. It was, indirectly, part of the reason he'd broken things off with the woman sitting across from him. Though he was confident he would have never gone that far, he knew he wouldn't have been one hundred percent emotionally committed and that was just as bad, in his opinion.

On the whole, the Trelawney girls deserved better and there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it. Not anymore anyway and he still felt incredibly guilty. That was likely something he'd carry around for the rest of his life, but he couldn't say as much either. "I'm sorry." He said instead, for the second time in the course of this conversation alone; for what felt like the thousandth time over all.