His smile was slightly helpless, a rare secret softness filling the little space between them. To anyone simply walking by, he must look like nothing more than a happy bloke with his girlfriend--but Molly, close as she was, would be able to see that this was a moment with genuine meaning to him. And he knew, he knew she could always see past his masks somehow to the parts of him that mattered but that he'd never known how to deal with, and not for the first time he was grateful to be seen.

"I do." He stole another, briefer kiss from her smiling mouth. "If you haven't changed your mind about pre-dinner gelato, we can grab some before we head back."