He's clearly fuming about her insistence --especially with the reiteration that the madman thinks he can take advantage of her -- but at the last part, his eyelids drop, as if storing the sentence away in order to take it out again if he's ever starving or under torture or something.
"I love you, Emma." Then quickly. "My concern has nothing to do with a lack of confidence in your abilities, either. If going alone is truly that necessary to your objective, I offer a compromise. I will stay in contact the entire time, and if he so much as lays a finger on you without your consent...I can be there quickly. But that, My Lady-Love, is as far as I can yield." Odd for him, since is yielding is normally absolute.
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