"Thank you," she said. It probably wasn't the best idea, but she did not much care if it were or not--all she wanted tonight was to be near him. It didn't matter to her if it were a few inches or a room between them. As long as she could wake in the night and call for him and have him be there.
"You make things right by just being here," she said. "Don't change yourself or who you are, you are precisely who I want."
There were some things she needed to take care of--but if her mother would not see reason, she could not stay there much longer, that much was clear.