"No,you haven't, because we are still here and still trying. Maybe there are still things we have to work out... maybe a lot of them, but if we keep trying, a little at a time, we can do this...I hope. I love you, Lorna, with everything I am."
He hoped.
He loved her. But what if she did not love him? Maybe he was a fool, but he could not imagine a life without her in it.