[ Nigel wants to tell Rosella that her father will be there, waiting for her, whenever she returns back to Daventry. Just the same way he knows his mother and father will be waiting for him, back at his house in Leeds, whenever he leaves this place too. His parents, his Maraclea and his Jack. Patience was all that was needed, the readiness for it.
Although he doesn't say it, the sentiment shows in his expression and his eyes before he reaches out and very lightly touches Rosella's elbow, urging her finish that second braid.
No more talk of dead mothers and dying fathers, today. But that Nigel has confided these things in her are no small thing. No, they are more dangerous to Rosella than perhaps she is capable of understanding. Somewhere in Nigel Colbie a door has been open that he is not certain he wishes to shut anymore. ]
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Although he doesn't say it, the sentiment shows in his expression and his eyes before he reaches out and very lightly touches Rosella's elbow, urging her finish that second braid.
No more talk of dead mothers and dying fathers, today. But that Nigel has confided these things in her are no small thing. No, they are more dangerous to Rosella than perhaps she is capable of understanding. Somewhere in Nigel Colbie a door has been open that he is not certain he wishes to shut anymore. ]
If you'd be as so kind, Rosella.