He doesn't know her, not yet, and the sting of that doesn't go away... but he seems willing to know her and that helps take the sharp edge away from it all.

"I still care," she says, albeit carefully. The idea that he might be afraid, now, of how much she might know and what she might say to others is one that has already crossed her mind.

"If you don't want me to say anything to anyone... I won't."