(Una answered the little smile with one of her own.)

"And that's leaving aside the question of what the 'right thing' is, and that's a business by no means cut and dried ever, I think," she said.

Something about that made her brain slew around back to some earlier point and a comment she hadn't responded to at the time. "Tried what?" she asked, and realised the question was completely context-free outside of her own head. "What you said earlier. I mean, if you want to elaborate; you don't have to."