"If it were up to me, we would already be there," she admits, feeling like she can be frank with Dutch. It's not that she'd wanted to wait seven years, but after breaking off the engagement with Fred, she hadn't thought it right to move on, then she'd met Steve and he'd held her heart until Daniel had found a path in.

It hadn't left much time for casual dalliances. "There are other issues at play, I fear," she admits. "I think he sees himself as being in the shadow of my last beau, which I've tried to dismiss as untrue. Still, I believe it's something he fears."