Everything in his voice told her that he was being completely sincere. Settling down in the chair next to his, she stared out at the vast ocean. Neither of them interrupted the predawn silence. It felt nice to just be there quietly sitting next to the other. She could almost imagine that no time had passed since the years they were together before her marriage. While it was a difficult, growing time for her back then, she could think back on it fondly as a simpler time. None of her problems seemed quite so vast and insurmountable as they did in the present.