I think I embarrassed her a little bit. She has never seen me be serious before. [But he did what had made him feel better back when he was wounded as a child, what made his mother feel better after his father had laid into her.] And I don't think she wanted me to see her like that.

She said she would tell Shepard, though.

[He knew they were both Shepard's, but little more than that. Same crew, anyway. He didn't know how close they were. But the more to look after her the better.] It would be better if you looked in on her.