I can think of a time when I thought you looked quite heroic in those tights.

Seeing me again wasn't that important. [Even if she had helped him, she still didn't see her role in the mission as vital compared to everything he had done.] But saving Bucky and the others...

You were the real Captain America the first time you tried to enlist and then tried again even after being rejected. Everything else was just means for it to become true to the rest of the world.