[ She isn't, but it's not hard to fill in the gaps. Even if the fillings he envisioned in his mind weren't the truth, it's enough for him to feel sympathetic while at the same time drawing conclusions out of it, ones about those people and what lives they should have moved along with, why they were trapped by their station, and how that informed Audrey.

It's sad. But a part of what makes it sad is how normal it all is. ]

I've known people like that before. [ It's odd, for the record, that Sullivan is able to speak so clearly here, when he does have a tendency to fumble his words ]

People can really often be their own worst enemies when it comes to their happiness.