[Her eyes widen, just slightly. She's confused by the way he's answered, that he would really react that much at all. And it's always more and more difficult to answer when he presses. He's a problem because she's fixated, because she cares for him. He's a problem because she's tired of being his disappointment. He's a problem because she's not going to let herself love someone who's already devoted elsewhere again; but she does.]
If I resolved everything, about him and about me. You would still be a problem.
or steps leading into the sea
If I resolved everything, about him and about me. You would still be a problem.