There's a pause, because she heard that too. Knows what Erin is saying in full, without giving her a chance to defend herself. And it's almost for the better, because even as her embarrassment is clear, it means she doesn't have to say it herself.

"...I think they do."

It's more than that. She knows, if what's been said is anything to go by. But to say that much to even Erin feels terribly, terribly vulnerable. Like her heart spilling on the floor, falling out of her hands, and at the same time her wanting to throw her own body in the way as a shield, not for her own sake, but for...