"...Fair question," he says. "I'm... not sure. It's hard to put into words. But I could definitely tell that that was a thinking-about-it sort of 'oh', and not a rejecting-the-very-idea kind. And now I think... you're willing to let the rest of them know you're thinking about it, especially since Miles already guessed and as much as told you it's your business and he wouldn't dream of trying to stop you, but you're understandably shy about getting into details in front of them. And," he goes on, voicing new insights as they occur to him, "you were worried you might be sort of leading me on, but now you've figured out that I'm hardly going to pick up on all this but fail to notice you haven't decided yet."