Perhaps it was best that he was ordered to France to repair his marriage. Her memories sustained her at times when she feared nothing else would. How miserable would it have been to have ruined what moments she held precious because of prolonged close proximity? It had been heartbreaking to have their engagement nullified and for her choice of husband changed, but she recognized that it all could've been so much worse. What was the old trite Muggle saying? "Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all." It was, however, small comfort.