"It doesn't trouble me," she says. "I mean--the shirt doesn't trouble me."

"When I return I will have to face her," she says in a low voice. "And tell her the things... the things I am afraid to even tell you. She may kill me. If she chose that penance, I don't..."

"I don't think I would stop her. If anyone has the right, it's her. And if I have to die I hope it's someone I love. Not a construct or a trap or a traitor. She is the one I choose to die beside."