He grins, quick and warm, as his heart swells to the point of breaking. It always does to see her this happy, and it is for a better reason than the other that recently brings her joy. When she brims with happiness for her beloved, he feels as though his world may crumble to dust.

'You are a silly thing,' he says, with nothing but love.

'To think it was all a dream. Well, perhaps it seemed so. It is a very strange thing indeed, and I am not sure how it can exist at all. But it does, I am sure of that. And you have a room there now, and everything you could want.'