Her shift off from the question allows him a moment to watch her come to terms with the possibilities. Unfortunately, it also lends a sense of reality to the situation that was missing in the first moment of pure relief, and he becomes aware of the way he's still gripping her hand, and extricates it slowly.

"Everyone's fine," he says, and there's a testy impatience to the pronouncement as if he doesn't care about their well-being, and she shouldn't either.