“I made a terrible mistake marryin’ Piper. It was you I said my vows to on my weddin’ day – your face was in my mind. And that night ’twas you I – ” “Nay!” She covered his mouth with her hand, unable to hear it, but he only held her tighter. She cried until the front of his linen shirt was damp with her tears, and when she pushed away from him he would not let her go. “There’s never been another like you,” he whispered. “And never will there be.”
