"I didn't say anything about keeping it secret," she replied, and prodded his shoulder a little. Jack sounded like he was apologizing, and she didn't think he needed to feel like he had to do that. "I was just surprised you said that much. You've always seemed kind of a private person to me."

There weren't a lot of areas where she and Jack were alike. He preferred to blow things up when she would rather study them, she hated downtime where he relished it, and most intellectual pursuits that fascinated her bored him to tears, but that had been one of the things they always had in common: they both played personal things very close to the vest.

Then again, he'd been talking to Daniel, so it was still pretty close to the vest.