I always expect you to do your job properly, because you always do, and I knew you would that time in the end, whether or not I had anything to say about it.

[She just...needed to say that. Because it's not even close, but it's the closest she can get to "Your judgment is good, which means I probably should have listened to you." Because she actually likes her boss, thanks, and didn't want him to lose a friend, by finding out the worst about him or by...what happened. And there's guilt, because she did what she had to do but she can't just forget the fact that she also did what she wanted to do, anymore than she can forget she might have been wrong.]

If you still want to talk, I'd like to do it in person. I'm far from figuring out these bloody filters. Name a time and place and I'll be there.