His eyes narrowed. "I did not say there was anything wrong with you, and you will not put words in my mouth." His lips twisted in a bitter line. "That you would transform words of... of..." ...no, he will not say it, not now. "--of esteem into an attack is precisely that of which I spoke. That my feelings and honest words mean nothing because you are so tightly wrapped in guilt and recrimination that you will hear negativity where none was offered."