"I felt ashamed of my attitude. Here Danielle was trying to be sweet to meand do something nice for me, and I was acting like a spoiled child. Ikept l...oking down at the ground, upset at myself for being so selfish,and worried that she would be upset with me."Oh sweetie, it's ok," she said, lifting my head up with her hand. "Iknow you're just excited and confused. That's ok, sweetie. Just relax andenjoy. Now, we have to get you clean all over."Danielle went under the sink. She pulled out a clear. "I love you too," he said. For wasn't that what she had said?—with her mouth, with her body, with her heart?Then, of course, there were showers to take, breakfasts to eat, last-minute packing to do, a car to drive. Their planes were going in opposite directions, and if they weren't fast, both of them would leave without them. Life, with all its petty cares and demands, reasserted its dominance for a time, and the next thing he knew they were standing in the terminal to go their separate. ”I was nonplussed, “But our force. We’ve been so diminished?”“Yes lord, but Harold has sent messages south. He’s called out the fyrd. He’s sent a herald to the King of Mercia. You know the ever tardy one. King Harold is confident that with the fyrd and a timely appearance by Mercia we’ll be more than enough for the Normans.I thought about that. The fyrd is the force of the common folk. All across the land our kingdom is divided into small shires, little communes. Each shire has a shireeve. In. That said, you wouldn’t be where you are without Elyse. I don’t even want to think about what would have happened had you come to Chicago completely alone. Whatever happens in your life, you need to keep her close.”“You know she plans to move to the suburbs with the kids when they get older.”“I know. Personally, I think it’s a bad idea, but she really wants her two kids to go to school in a smaller, suburban community like we all grew up in. You really need her close to you.”“She has to do.