He looks into his coffee for a moment with a soft nod. "I- I didn't mean to doubt you, sir. I know you always say what you mean! You strive for perfection and all that. But now you're saying that... you were wrong in the past."

Gumshoe then looks back up at her, looking warm yet confused. "I guess I could use some clarifications. So when you say that the way you treated me in the past was wrong, you mean... like the whole whipping thing, right?" He says with an uncertain scratch of his head. There's a lot she could theoretically be apologizing for, and he feels like he should narrow it down while he processes this whole concept.