"Not tonight," she echoes, and oh, but her smile is sweet and heartbreakingly sad as well as she looks down at the shining steel in Lucy's hand.

Ever clever was Pat Delgado's daughter, and here in this place --

(a dream and a memory and so much more beside)

-- the Girl at the Window is often wise, as well, and sometimes knows more than she can yet say.

"It'll wait until I see thee again, Lu." With a quick movement, she's stooped down, arms wrapped tightly around the other girl and her golden hair smelling sweetly of sun-warmed grass as Susan hugs her.

"Long days and pleasant nights--"