[The dimming of light draws her gaze upwards for but a moment, and makes her heart feel just a bit heavier, but she ultimately looks across the table at him when she speaks again.]

I'm glad. I trust my former self to have made the right the call. I'm a very good judge of character, you know.

[She smiles at him in earnest then, though it's a bit more reserved than usual.]

I want us to be friends, Eustace. This doesn't change that one bit.