[He notices the reconsidered gesture, but chooses to say nothing, because he can't even say for sure if he would have preferred a different outcome.]

... You needn't put yourself out on my account. Enough people have suffered due to my own ignorance that I can hardly say I don't deserve some level of inconvenience.

[He was SUPPOSED to make up for it by working hard to fix all the problems in the system, but now that he's been removed from it, what else is he to do but suffer?]