[Ferran shifts in his seat a little.] This meeting, I will admit, is...sooner than anticipated. Yet one works with one has received.

As for the matter of your isolation, do you not think that was done on purpose? To see how you dealt with the separation from your friends and acquaintances? I could have allowed you to see them and speak with them far sooner than I did, yet I did not. Your loneliness was unique, and I could pass up that opportunity.