Familiarity. He is glad to find it, even if he was not expecting it. But given her statement, they have never met. How intriguing. She is... captivating.But he knows not how to address her and her words.

"It is not possible to apologize to those who are dead," he points out rather calmly. There is no way they will hear his words, not while he yet lives. But he is certain they cannot understand his anguish and his regret. "You assume much of men you would not have known."