Joan can get the feeling something's off, but she doesn't know what. She assumes he's just pretending he wasn't as shitty a priest as he really was. That's his perogative-- you do a lot of work to become a priest, and nobody wants to feel like they're bad at something they studied up on for so long. But he was defrocked for a reason. It's not like that shit happens every day.

And she just can't see him as choosing to leave it behind. Not by how he talks about it, not by how he acts.

She shrugs. None of this is her business, anyway. Idle observation is just that.

"Well, don't worry. I don't do confessions anymore. Storytelling's different, but I wanted to spare your delicate sensibilities."