[Louis isn't wrong, it's no real comfort. Just a small example of one way it could have been worse, he supposes. It doesn't change that she was too young, too small.
And it doesn't change how it all ended, though he refuses to picture a child so small standing there in the sun, the light searing her skin...no. No. He can't let himself picture that.
With a bleary, wry tone to his voice, he adds:]
Claudia said that must mean the two of us had much more sense.
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[Louis isn't wrong, it's no real comfort. Just a small example of one way it could have been worse, he supposes. It doesn't change that she was too young, too small.
And it doesn't change how it all ended, though he refuses to picture a child so small standing there in the sun, the light searing her skin...no. No. He can't let himself picture that.
With a bleary, wry tone to his voice, he adds:]
Claudia said that must mean the two of us had much more sense.
[Not that he actually believes that.]