Adele gave him a smile. "And you gave me life. Kept me safe." She found her smile vanishing again. "It can work out. It really can. You were married a long time when I was growing up. It was a happy marriage. And you've done so much, been through so much for Mama. She'll see that. She will. Everything will work out." Her voice was desperate, with her words switching back and forth from Romanian to English.