You looked so pretty, dear, and so forlorn.

It seemed brutal, somehow, to abandon you on the weary road to heaven." She sighed.

That was his chivalry again.

He would escort her politely to the door of heaven, but would he ever go in with her, would he ever stay there?
Still, it was something that he should have gone with her so far.

It gave her confidence and an idea of what her power might come to be.