Quinn sat back in her chair and regarded him thoughtfully. She could see the disappointment in his eyes, and heard it in his voice.

"Y'can't have lived as long as we have withou' stackin' up a few regrets," she said finally. "And, although I don't regret standing up to Rome, I canne take back what happened to ye."

Not for the first time, she noticed the wedding band he wore. She sighed thinking of another regret: never telling her former husband who, and what, she was.

"So, this wife of yers, she know about all this?" she couldn't help asking.