Because it's her secret and she wants to keep it. [He hates it, too. She calls him brother now, not half: Jon, not Jon Snow, but before others he must call her a bastard, instead. It feels so wrong.] I'd never tell anyone your secrets. [And he knows that Arya would never tell anyone his.] We should do her that same kindness, whatever her reasons.
don't mind me just going to keep going while gendry's talking, cut back in any time!