Well, he said he never asked you to forward it to anybody.
He had come to you and asked you to consider this is as something he would like you to respond on to him personally, you to him, with some kind of clear direction on how to proceed.
He said he was shocked when the Privy Council called him to ask about it; he hadn't expected you to tell anybody. Initially he just wanted you to think about how this very explosive situation could be dealt with in a way that would protect the person bringing it forward. He was surprised when he got this call, and then you personally never talked to him again about it, and that was sort of contradicting.... Or it wasn't contradicting, but it was just not what he was expecting.
Were you expecting to have another conversation with him about this?