“Will you stay with me? Tonight, I mean.” “I’ll stay as long as you want me,” Rowley said. “However long that is. There’s nowhere else in the world I want to be while you want me to be here.” “That might be a very long time,” Clem said. “If you leave it up to me, it might not be far from always.” “Well, you know me.” Rowley looked up at him with the faintest shadow of a smile. “I like to wait.”
