Horatio's Words

I think this line is spoken with a mixed tone. Although Horatio knows that Hamlet has just sent two of his friends to their deaths, he has foiled the king's plot to kill him in England. Horatio probably does not approve of Hamlet's method of saving himself, however, after Hamlet's treatment of them, Ros and Guil don't really seem to be his friends. He does not show remorse at their death, although since he is arguable mad, we cannot really understand him fully, and it appears to me that he just threw them away. As was said in class, they are "sponges", just tools of the king, and so if it foils Claudius's plans, so much the better for it.