"Guilty as charged, I suppose. I didn't think it would be so very unwelcome." His look is evaluating, not hurt -- never that -- but still, she does really seem to have given him pause.

"Would you have me go then? Truly." They both know he is very unlikely to take his fingers out of the Inquisition pie entirely; she really isn't the only reason he's there, after all. But there is much he can do in the field, or even back home. He doesn't wish her abandoned, but she is his favorite, and as such she is one of the few people who can sway his mind by simply asking.