He's staying, and she's grateful, but now she doesn't know what to say. What can you say, after that? Either you address it, make it ache worse, or you pretend it didn't happen, and that's a falsity she's not prepared for.

So she sits in silence for a long time, looking down at her coffee. At last, she says slowly, "Did aught come of it? Kira and all? Nobody went on killin', right?"