Because 'tis not within my power! Do you not think I would incur punishment, were I to do so?

Use your intelligence, Hoffman! I have never gauged you to be without it!

Another guards Amanda, as I guarded you. If her ward fails in duties, then - and only then - is she derelict in them. But she must prove this. Not me and not you.

I like this no more than you... Amanda has violated my trust as surely as she took your eye. I do not take kindly to that.