"Me too," he tells her, just so she knows she isn't alone there either. There was his first real girlfriend in Munich, but that was a long time ago and they hadn't lasted this long, although it sometimes felt as though she'd left far too large an imprint on him for only a year together. Still, he hasn't thought about her much these past few years. Not since meeting Veronica.

"I'm not just going to give up," he says finally. "You are too good for me to do that. If things get hard, then we will figure it out."