"I didn't say they were the same," she points out in turn, but lets the mild debate go before it really gets started. Caleb's argument is the better one, anyway, and she follows the turn of his head as he looks towards the now-empty path. "Well, even if she was wrong, if it made her happy to see it I suppose it wasn't all bad."

She lies back again on his coat, under the warmth of the sun, and smiles. "We'll have some kind of...secret life, all in her head."