Anna's pretty sure she's blushing. Jeremy has the uncanny ability to make her feel like she's merely a girl, susceptible to these feelings rather than being a creature that's able to combat them and use them to her own advantage without a slip of remorse. She likes that he makes her feel human again.

She bites her lip for a moment. Her mother disapproves out of fear of what happened to her and Jonathan Gilbert repeating with her own daughter. She assumes her mother might also dislike her hanging out with Jeremy because she's incapable of gaining closure on her feelings for his ancestor. Hesitating a moment, she knows she might come to regret her words, "What she doesn't know won't hurt her." She shifts slightly on the seat. Realising how that sounds, like he's some dirty secret, she quickly amends, "Not that she doesn't know about you. It's just … I don't like to tell her everything. I like to keep what happens between us ... between us." She feels a little shy at the end. Jeremy Gilbert isn't her dirty little secret that she's ashamed of. He's the person she wants to spend the most time with, and keeping that a secret keeps him out of harm's way.