'An honour' is a flattering first.

[It's almost an aside.]

[A smile is a smile---or at least, the suggestion of a smile. Though she tends to only tentatively interpret expressions without the context of the aura she'd see speaking in person, Sam's confident of that.]

And fair's fair. If there's some way I can help you outside this project now in-progress, please say so. I know that that, too, is iffy, but on the off chance...