He's blushing a little bit. She's noticed that, though she hasn't put two and two together here - she's not so vain, after all, to assume that every or even any sixteen year old boys are going to look at her and develop instant romantic feelings.

"Ah. And then went Outside? I have a few cousins who have done that." Most have, like Dillon, come back again, but there's a few more distant ones who got married and decided to stay Outside.

A little easier than trying to explain the Deck.