Her eyes brightened.
"Yes. Yes. I had not thought of that."
"Yet he did this and further risked what was left to save an unknown messenger boy."
"Oh, he did well!"
"Then he came to you like a man and told what you might never have discovered, just because he wished to stand clean before you."
"Yes," she breathed.
"Why did he do that?" demanded her reflection.
"I—I don't know."
"Why did he do that?"
"Because—"