The context question does escape Enjolras at first, which is probably why he's ducking his head a little as he realizes how that sounds. Ah, English and your general context. How strange you still are to him.

"Ah, sorry that did sound rather personal. But I meant in the...general sense, you'd call it. Humanity, any other beings who've come to join humanity...I had hoped once that the centuries following mine would be happy ones, for all involved. It seems that the answer is different among those I ask, but more often than not that the happiness we hoped at home has not come true."