"I know that," Sean says before he slowly lifts his head again, looking up at her with wide, shadowed eyes. "I thought I knew that. An' then ye took yer ring off. I spent days, Meredith, jus'... thinkin' I'd finally done it, said the wrong thing one too many times, screwed up so terribly that it could actually end us. An' I was wrong, thank God I was wrong, but now I cannae get it out o' me head that the real thing cannae be much further off'n that an' it terrifies me. My mistakes didnae consist o' breakin' things off, that's the difference."