She closed her eyes as he stepped back, and she wasn't sure if it was disappointment, relief, or a mixture of the two. It was good he listened to her. "I know. Slowly. And I don't think it would be a regret. The timing might be a little off, but I don't think I'd use the word regret."
Lois swallowed as a thought occurred to her. "Have you been living with the memory of that night all this time... and never acted on it?" Because if he thought about it half the time she did...