He was curious to see how long the denial might hang on. Or if it was even really denial at this point. Maybe he had just accepted that the impossible had happened. Given his own abilities, maybe nothing was really impossible and there were people who could steal people from their own time and trap them in a circus.
"Yes," he answered before he half shrugged, "well, kind of. I didn't know her at home, but she knew who I was and was ... well, we likely would have met in the future.
"It's kind of complicated," he smiled a little. He would share at least some of the story if she was interested, but for all he knew, she was eager to get out of here and didn't want to hear it.