He had reached the door when she said suddenly: “Niall“
He turned, abruptly glowing, to see her standing full in the sunlight, her face as white and open as the rose.
“Niall, don’t go!” She had found words at last, the right words, and in time. She said to him what she had said in the dead of night, at the gate of Godric’s Ford:
“Don’t leave me now!”