I think so. [ she won't commit entirely -- they are both so unpredictable, in the end. ] I was there the night they met. That, ah...dance? The one you'd just missed? [ her smile is slow and sad. ] I went with Barnes. And they met there, down on the moon. Like great big loyal mastiffs, they sized each other up and found each other acceptable.

[ as crass as the metaphor may be, she tells it with affection. ]