Oh, no. Your sympathy, right then, was for my poor missus, not for my marital woes, which she is the primary cause of.

I don't mind. [ Another open-palmed gesture. Nash really is unarmed, even if he usually wouldn't be. ] But I wonder what you'd do if it turned out I was keeping her against her will. Surely that's not an uncommon thing, where you're from? How do you keep that chivalrous streak of yours undetected?