"I'm sure you haven't lost your mind," Edith says, not needing any reassurance on that front. Whatever may have happened between them before, she has no reason to doubt him now, not least about something like this. If he says that people are staring and whispering, then she believes it; she just doesn't know why they might be, in spite of what she's been vaguely aware of since heading out today. "I'm sure there's some explanation. Have you heard any of what they've said?"