If it was a question you wanted an answer to, then yes, I would hope you would outright ask.

[She pauses a minute, before continuing in a slightly softer tone.]

What I wanted was to surprise you, and to cheer you up. To try to make you smile if I could. Because it's as you said — you haven't, in several days. Smiled.

[She's quiet again.]

What I mean is, I wasn't thinking of myself. It was not my intent to try to make myself happy. The fact that it did was...a pleasant side effect.