He sits up a little in the bed, to look at her, and is able to tell that she is no longer entirely in that protected happy state. He feels a little sad, then; though he wouldn't want her to always be an unthinking feeling thing. To own Carissa Sevar is a prideful thing because she is the Spellcraft master building his intelligence-headband assembly line, who could've also had Abrogail Thrune if Keltham hadn't snapped Carissa up first by a matter of three days.
"That was part of the idea there, yes."