Tress is such a quiet, kind person that it's easy not to realize that she's suffered -- she doesn't act like a person who's suffered. But that makes him think of the nuns, and how some of them came to the nunnery because they loved God and some of them came because it was a refuge. They didn't say anything about it to him -- it was something he'd catch snatches of when he was being quiet by himself and the nuns were talking to each other -- but some of them had suffered in the world outside too. He watches Tress' face, to see whether he can tell what she thinks of what she's been through, but the features that just yesterday were his are still inscrutable.

I'm sorry, he signs.