[Ah, yes. He finds himself nodding along, mulling through that. As far as this kind of thing goes, he's on her side, though he does understand the other point of view. He might err on that side himself if he didn't suspect it were literally impossible to maintain the level of secrecy one would need for it to make any difference.]

I see. Well, for what it's worth, I think you did the right thing! We don't have to trust them entirely to work with them. And we don't have to tell them everything we know, either . . . but if you ask me, if they wanted to know every single move we made, they could. They have more power over us than they pretend they do. That means it's to our benefit to maintain relations with them and make use of their knowledge—you know, to a reasonable extent! I'm not about to run to them with anything that's off the record.