Thrilled and horrified

Greeting my students as they walked into our first grade classroom
last week, one boy showed me a bandaged finger. I asked him what had
happened. He told me in Hindi a few times, and finally said to me, in
English, "Didi, rat bite".

I didn't know whether to be thrilled because he was able to relay the
information to me in English, or horrified at the fact that he was
bitten by a rat, likely in his sleep.