[It could have been more shocking really, if she hadn't had a conversation vaguely like this with him before.
She was mostly in a state of blinking, if anything.]

I see...

[She wasn't sure what to say after that. She looked like she wanted to ask a question after a moment but then she appeared to bite it back. Instead she just gave him a bit of a puzzled look.]

But you didn't... I mean...
You've never said a word about anything like that since I arrived in the City. I thought...