Sean's not sure what she's trying to get at, so he elects to keep babbling on instead of answering a question she may or may not be asking. "This was always gonna happen, ye an' I. We were always gonna happen. I dinnae ken what I'd be without ye, an' I dinnae want to. I jus' cannae help but think that I should've gotten me own affairs in order 'fore I went draggin' ye down into 'em. I always have."