If the lords made a bastard King in the North, they can weather your choice of husband -- or your lack of it. But it is your choice.

Your father and mother both did their duty. [In marriage, he means, but also in life. It had led them both to their deaths.] Duty can be sweet, but you know my thoughts on the matter. No marriage for you unless it's one that you want.

[Still, while relations are much better between them now than they had been before he left Winterfell to join the Watch, she's not usually so outspoken with her affections.]

That's -- [He smiles.] It's good of you. To keep my luck, she and I will have to remember each other, or we'll have to do it all over again back at home.

It isn't an easy thing to wonder if it will happen all over again someday.

[And he does, sometimes. Sometimes it keeps him awake at night.]