Among all the deceit, it is important to have some evidence of reality. It would be easy to believe that this itself was just an illusion without it.

[In other words, it was important to have-- some sort of anchor.]

You yourself seem to be handling it quite gracefully. [Though he wouldn't expect anything less, she was still a young women, despite everything that's happened here.] It is... regrettably, unlikely that others will. But I do not believe it is very fair to harass the messenger, is it?