"What was it he said- oh yes, 'Even if you are a squib, you're still too good for me, so it doesn't matter'. I really am an idiot sometimes, Demelza." She let out a bitter laugh at that and took another long sip of her drink.
"Everyone keeps saying that, you know. It'll work out- it has to." Daphne's hopelessness was more apparent then than ever. "Some things don't work out, Demelza. Not everything has a happy ending. Life isn't the fairy tale some would make it out to be."