"I..." Her eyes widened at the question, and her heart started racing. She hadn't expected that. "Y-yes?" She looked down and saw that she'd been wringing her hands without realizing it. That and her mouth was so dry, she was having a hard time forming words and saying them. "I suppose I was - I was... relieved." She glanced over at him through her eyelashes, and she didn't want to ask, she didn't want to know the answer, but she asked anyway. "Why?"