"All the more reason not to avoid me, or act weird around me, then." She's glad to see him smile, and smiles back at him as she joins him at the sink to help with to help him with the wash. "Focusing on what we have here, and now, rather than what's waiting for us back home, seems like the thing to do."

She says the last part for herself, as much as she says it for him. she's been trying to put out of her mind what she knows is waiting for her whenever she leaves this place and goes home. It's a reminder for herself to push that back, and focus on what she has now.