[ It does occur to him that if she is married, she must be missing her husband a lot: he misses his own companions as well, and he'd only been their coworkers.

His expression doesn't exactly drop, but he shakes his head insistently at that last comment she's made. ]

It's not silly at all, is it? It's something important to you, of course you don't want anything to happen to it. [ For all his timidness, he's firm on this point. ] But, if it really does break... I'm sure it'd want to break in your hands, not hidden away in your apartment.