After the second week, she stopped hearing his footsteps approach the door. She no longer heard the floors of the Manor shake signalling he had arrived back through Apparition. The sound of his bedroom door slamming stopped. She even refrained from asking Nolly where he was and why he stopped coming to see her because even her small house-elves looked more tired than usual. She sulked in her room, mindlessly playing chess by herself. It was pathetic, but she was yearning for his company, his presence.