[She muses then, not for the first time and certainly not for the last, how different and astonishing it is from everything she'd once known, to hear Dave make a decision like that so impulsively and yet so sincerely. Once upon a time there was an expectation that something like that would be her duty, not her lover's; it would be her role to change her life to better suit his mood, and not the other way around.

She's so lucky, she thinks. She'll never take for granted how fortunate she is, to be alive and to have this.]

Only if it's for your sake, too. Only if it makes you as happy as it'd make me.

[Because it would, of course. She won't try to conceal that; it'd be disingenuous to, anyway.]

With things being what they are at the moment, it seems we'll have the chance to try it out for the time being, won't we...?