She was crying. Noble pressed his lips together in a firm line, trying to keep himself from reacting with too much emotion. Usually he was the one out of the pair of them that was angry — but she was clearly much madder than he was, and Noble felt like he had used all his anger up on his family. Now he was looking at her and he felt intense regret, and his throat was thick when he said, "It's hard to love someone and not let them know."

A mirror of what he'd said to her all those years ago, essentially.