"Ah," she said, the target having been hit. "I think I see."
Change is an interesting concept when you think about it in abstract form. Can we see change in ourselves as well as others can? Can deliberately-taken change have an effect on innate characteristics? As in, if you decide to stop complaining, for example, and then become, in general, a more grateful person.
"Can I ask what happened?" If he said no, she'd be fine with that. It may very well be too soon. She'd had her heart broken once in particular, and never really healed back to normal. Just...kind of grew over, like ivy on brick.
So soon after, though, the pain is exposed and raw.