Perhaps so.

[She sighs. Stoops. Picks up a pebble and weighs it in her palm.]

Perhaps... I don't think it's pessimism to retain a sense of perspective. To actually remember all the things that were said to me - all the warnings I got, at the very start of this mess--

[She breaks off.]

We were wrong. And it was only good fortune that meant it didn't matter as much as it might.