[ qui-gon looks up again. he recognises the hurt in that tone and it makes it easy to release the weight he's accumulated. in this moment, he has unknowingly hurt his apprentice again, something he knows he has done more than he should. ]

You're- you were my apprentice, Obi-Wan. There were more important things for you to learn. And there would have been time to tell you, once you were ready.