... I wouldn't have thought so.

[Yeah that's a pretty vague and ominous answer but that's just how Faust is. And with that reaction he isn't sure what use pushing the matter would be. But he... Knows what he did just before coming here. And he knows that he shouldn't- under any circumstances- have survived it. It would have been pointless otherwise.]

So I'm guessing what those people on the ship said about there not being a way back was true?

[Not that he completely believes it, but still.]