... To begin with, I did realize that something like this was likely to happen. I was not entirely honest myself.

[He'd had full faith, or close to it, when he thought she was the item role but...]

After you confessed, though I did believe you had good intentions, I thought that you might betray me.

[But still, for the most part, he kept his promise. And it does sting, however dulled, to hear all this from Vriska—to have that confirmation now, but—well, even he's not completely sure.]