She smiled faintly. "Back home, we were both lucky," she said. Here, she wasn't sure anyone was, except maybe those who had died too soon. Her smile grew a little with his compliment though. "I don't know about beautiful. Not today. But thank you."
She hesitated. They were dancing around the subject as far as she saw it; making nice without ever addressing the real reason he was here. Her stomach still hurt with the thought though, and she knew she wouldn't last much longer this way. So at last she said in a small voice, "You know I never meant that Teddy couldn't see her, right?"