He notices the hesitation, but that could be for the same reasons Topher hesitated.

Quickly he moved to the console of computers, booting them up and checking the system while he got his thoughts together. Was she angry at him? He knew he blamed himself for what happened, but did she blame him too?

Turning around he found to hard to look her in the face and so took a deep breath and then looked up into her eyes. "I'm sorry."