She searched his eyes with her own until he looked away. "All right," she said quietly.
The agreement might have been to the fact she could trust him, acknowledging they were going to be late, or so many other things that remained buried and unspoken between them.
Her eyes closed for a moment, and she knew they should go, should head out to class, but she couldn't make herself push away from the wall. "I'll ... be along in a minute," she said softly.
"Severus." There was no reason to say his name other than to simply hear herself say it. She tried to hear everything in it, to hear the words she couldn't speak, to hear the words he needed her to say. She wondered if there would come a time again that they could talk to each other openly, like they had before.