"If it shall cause problems for you, obviously you needn't be involved," says Susan immediately. "But perhaps they have, and even so..." She's not trying to sway him, just explain her meaning: "I think Claudius and I are alike in a number of ways. Of course I've not been tortured needlessly the way he was, but if someone with whom I had a complicated past came along and said they saw my pain and found it tremendously reasonable and should like to try and bring some ease - if Peter suddenly showed up one day, for example, or one of the people here... Sagramore, for instance, or perhaps the angel, or even Enjolras - I expect I would find it startlingly touching in a very different way to how it feels when it comes from an expected source. Do you see what I mean? And I think Claudius is like me in this."