[Good. He isn't about to lie to children, even particularly innocent seeming ones, when the lie will likely be exposed. So he just says - ]

I don't know. [. . .] But you don't have to participate if you don't want to. You are young, and there are better things you can be doing. If something like what happened on Sunday happens again, you do not need to watch. If something like that trial happens again, you can don't need to be responsible for voting for somebody. You can ask someone - me, or Miss Eisner, or Beauregard, or someone else - what you ought to write for a vote if you wish. There's no shame in any of that.