For now. That was indeed true and he didn't know what help he could offer her that would still be seen as being within the realm of propriety. "There has to be somewhere you can go," he said. Surely there was still a friend out there that would shelter her? Or a woman's shelter of some sort? There had to be something out there.
"Nonsense," Richard said with a smile when she said that he wasn't obligated to sit with her. "I am sitting with you because I want to, not out of obligation. I was so worried for you."

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