The pain, the longing, everything I thought I was reading in his face vanishes. “Don’t go all soft and soppy on me, Darling,” he says, smiling one of his awful, beautiful, heartbreaking, devastating smiles. “You’re the one with the mighty quest to complete, remember?” With that he rises. As he does so, that gulf rips open between us once more.
You have got to be kidding me. This Is too unbelievable. He's been practically throwing himself at her feet and then to do this to her when she shows some caring and vulnerability...
