[She is, too. She's seen too many lives end horridly; she's glad his gesture at least did some good, even if it wasn't an ideal resolution.
And here's a thing: for all she'd been unrepentant in her nosiness a moment before, Rosalind doesn't seem all that pleased to share in return. She pauses for a long few seconds, staring at the water, before saying slowly:]
. . . correcting a mistake. A very large one I'd made when I was a bit younger than you, actually, and a very tricky one to undo. It had put me in a man and his daughter's moral debt, and I owed them the effort.
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[She is, too. She's seen too many lives end horridly; she's glad his gesture at least did some good, even if it wasn't an ideal resolution.
And here's a thing: for all she'd been unrepentant in her nosiness a moment before, Rosalind doesn't seem all that pleased to share in return. She pauses for a long few seconds, staring at the water, before saying slowly:]
. . . correcting a mistake. A very large one I'd made when I was a bit younger than you, actually, and a very tricky one to undo. It had put me in a man and his daughter's moral debt, and I owed them the effort.