Maybe it was because she was a hopeless romantic--emphasis on hopeless--but Diana immediately decided that this someone was much more than a friend. Just a story to lighten her heart a little. She wouldn't ask.

Instead, she gave him the faintest of smiles. "I'm glad you're not alone," she told him. "Nothing worse than being alone."

And she spoke from six months of massively bad experience there.

Not to mention a sense of loneliness, even when she was surrounded by people. Especially super annoying people who insisted that she was 'the Abel' and all that jazz.