Oh, absolutely! And make puppy eyes at him. Make him feel guilty as hell for saying no.

A six-year-old girl? In a train accident? No wonder you saved her!

And that seems very unfair -- not to mention inhumane! -- that the child should be punished for surviving. And it seems you were punished, too, by being made to feel responsible for the fate of her soul, when you hadn't been told in advance.