The Lady smiled sadly and explained, "We have known each other for five years. You have never tried to do anything more intimate than an occasional chaste kiss or holding hands. And most of the time, I am the one who initiated the contact. Apart from that, there was the sadness in your eyes when you stared out into a distance. Every time I asked you what the matter was, you would pretend not to know what I was speaking of. I have always known there was a part of your heart that remained closed to me; I just never knew who it was that held it."