...yeah.

[He says it like an admission.]

I think that's a part of it. If it were Luca...he wouldn't expect me to hurt an innocent person to save him. I wouldn't expect it of him, either. But Peregrine...

[.....]

I don't mean to say she would want me to do that. She wouldn't. But I feel responsible. I...haven't always done everything I could have for her, in the past.