Trust me, it won't be the first time I've kept secrets for the sake of that sort of thing. [...is she implying there are secrets. WELP. GOTTA KEEP CONCILIATING. MAYBE HE'LL JUST IGNORE IT.]

I'm sad to say that you're probably right about your presence being less helpful than anything. [Beat.] Have you considered. Maybe doing something that's in a purely conciliatory fashion nice? I'm not sure that it would work out, but it's a less guaranteed hurt...