"Oh," she replies, her tone light though her expression pinches slightly. She feels oddly disappointed. She's faced rejection before so it's not an entirely new sensation, but all the same it's there.

"She is... a lucky woman. If she doesn't realize how lucky she is, keep me in mind, will you?" She's frank with that statement, she'd said before it was a shame that he was so unaccustomed to women being open about appreciating him. Her smile returns to her face after that, and she dips her chin down. "And I hope that won't make you stop talking to me entirely. I may flirt, but I value your friendship before anything else."