Wow. That may be the fastest she's ever seen someone jump from "guilty and dejected" to "raving like a bad fantasy novel". Not that she knows that many people who talk like bad fantasy novels to begin with, but the point still stands.

As she listens, though, increasingly wondering what he's trying to get at here, her face lights up. "So, he's okay, is what you're saying?" She sounds vaguely exasperated, but also sort of amused and relieved. This is so much better than she had expected, even if it took an unnecessarily wordy speech for her to find out.