She doesn't respond for a moment, fighting internally with what that means. Being paraded in front of those people to tell them what happened, risking the news getting out, getting to Merrick. She wants to be done with this already. She wants to get through it and pretend it never happened.

"You're right," she croaks. "I don't want you to be right, but you're right. I don't want to deal with this again. I want it to be done."