Possible Clues:

• Share feelings
• Understand when I seem confused about route
• Understand European politician is overcome by terrible heat
• Be understanding of
• Understand course in the end, having missed introduction
• Understand pastime in which he's involved
• Understand and feel as another person does - time phase (anag)
• Feel for me turning up with bloke and his wife finally appearing!
• Identify him as Pete, in disguise
• Have fellow-feeling for