"I'm not offended," she smiles at him. "My world is harsher than yours. We all do ugly things to survive. One of the reasons I come here is to hear what people from gentler places do, what they think about what's right and wrong."

She shakes her head. "Makes things clearer for me, sometimes. Even if I can't do what's objectively right, I can keep it in mind as a direction to turn toward. Slowly."