"I have changed!" she promised, taking his hands. "And I can change more. I can be whatever you need me to be, I promise, I'll try harder." She'd spent the last months with him stressed and panicked but she was sure that leaving him would make everything worse. Things had been so good before he'd changed faces, hadn't they?
But maybe he was right and she'd never changed at all. Maybe she really was just exactly the same as she had always been.