"And he's been through even more things that nobody else can claim to since leaving you," Strange counters. It's not an attack: his tone is more cautious than anything else.

"Trust me, I want your relationship to be positive. It's just...you weren't at the talks. How much do you know about how Ignatius was changed? Physically and magically, that is, not emotionally."

Even someone who's as unobservant as Strange had managed to pick out that there were a few choice moments when everybody was staring at him that Ignatius looked like he wanted to melt into the floor. It's one thing to have people you don't know stare at you with horror or pity, but to have someone you care about do that? That's something completely different.