It's lucky that he turns back; she isn't prepared to interrupt any escape attempts. Or for this apparently, given the baffled look he receives in answer. Flush with mortification or exasperation, Wysteria struggles after some better reply but finally just finds her way to:

"But this is exactly my meaning, Mister Ellis! If it's not myself or Mister Stark, then it is the—the friendship itself. And I don't understand why it troubles you so, or why you shouldn't think it unwarranted, or in what way it doesn't—" She makes a frustrated noise between her teeth. "Align with the way in which you see yourself."