She wasn't going to argue, even if she felt like she probably didn't really deserve this kind of niceness. (Even Whitney hadn't been nice to her like this, but then, things with Whitney had been brief and intense and there had been very little opportunity for him to know her, all things considered.)

"Why?" she sniffled, needing to know but also totally unsure of the answer. "I'm not even nice to me."

Perhaps he had noticed?