[Her face immediately falls at the answer, averting her eyes as if trying to offer some form of respect.]

My apologies. I shouldn't have asked something like that. My curiosity got the better of me, I suppose.

[She tries to draw the conversation onto herself, bring it away.]

I can see how this place can tend to bring about second chances. Regardless, there is much to enjoy here when it is not doing... this, as it were.