[ She is quiet again, but eventually she will unfold and pad back across the stone floor to climb up and kneel on the bed so she can hold his head to her chest, rest her own atop it, stroke the hair at his temple, and murmur to him. ]
I am sorry. That I did you great harm. That I continue to hurt you. I am trying. I am trying to be a better woman than I was.
[ She angles her head so she can look at Bastien and his truly meticulously arranged scarf and boots. ]
And I am sorry to you, Bastien. I will swear to it that I meant only well by my invitation, but... I did not know. How poorly things were between Byerly and I.
I have ruined breakfast, I think. I shall go and replace it, if the two of you should like something warm.
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You cannot say 'of course' if I do not know.
[ She is quiet again, but eventually she will unfold and pad back across the stone floor to climb up and kneel on the bed so she can hold his head to her chest, rest her own atop it, stroke the hair at his temple, and murmur to him. ]
I am sorry. That I did you great harm. That I continue to hurt you. I am trying. I am trying to be a better woman than I was.
[ She angles her head so she can look at Bastien and his truly meticulously arranged scarf and boots. ]
And I am sorry to you, Bastien. I will swear to it that I meant only well by my invitation, but... I did not know. How poorly things were between Byerly and I.
I have ruined breakfast, I think. I shall go and replace it, if the two of you should like something warm.