I assure you, I have heard -- and witnessed -- worse.

[He does not, however, clarify that by worse he means detailed and grotesque descriptions of murders, because Frederick Chilton had spent most of his professional career treating the criminally insane. Relativity was only reassuring when compared to presumably decent things, and he anticipated that Sarissa wouldn't appreciate this spectrum.

Besides, he reasoned, it might bubble up more memories of this Georgia. He anticipated the ex-beau to be something of a narcissist, and his experience with narcissists have all been quite deadly.]

I think it is important for you to... Express your woes. Your feelings. And regardless of our friendship, I am willing to hear it all.

[Professionalism be damned.]