"It is difficult not to," he admits, but he'll try. He wants to say he saved her too late, that he should have done it days, weeks, months before. But Edith knew he felt that way, perhaps it wasn't worth repeating again.

"Lucille protected me," he murmurs. "And I couldn't just leave her, until I met you. Then that was all I wanted. And... I never got the chance to thank you for that."