"I know." He says simply, and lets her vent her anger on him as she pleases. "But it might have cost us both dearly" It might have cost me you

"And there were the others to worry over as well. I am sorry that I sent you way Alice, but you know if this choice had to be made again I would."

No matter how painful, he would. He learnt long ago, after all, how to make such choices (my brother or my people? You had to leave me there Maedhros agrees quietly It was the only way)