"Yes... and after all these years." Of course, why his wife had never told him her full name escaped him, but surely he could ask once she was here. He didn't think she'd moved on. Or rather, he believed that she hadn't, just as he'd believed all these years that they would one day be reunited.

"I don't know if you've ever been married, Miss Aradia. But she was the one person I cared about most in the entire world." He turned to Clara and smiled; surely she of all the people present must understand.