"Oh," she said at a lower level as her face flushed a rosy red. "Oh, well..."

She didn't realise at the time that her statement could be taken in that way. Sarah Jane ducked her head for a moment until the heat in her cheeks went away.

Then, she took a deep breath and looked back up at Jack. "But clearly I'm the acception to the rule, as a fellow time traveller and a friend of the Doctor's."