"Ye've already helped me so much, say true." Gentle and sure. "Yer kindness and the stories ye've told, it's all been more of aid than ye might ever have dreamed."

She'd not wish to hurt him for all the world, and is oh, so aware of the trust Caspian's placed in her by leaving her to explain without his guidance.

"It's only that I've need to be gone from here from tonight until the morrow, and I'd not wished ye to worry over my absence."