"We've... spoken of our feelings. I am as honest with him as I know how to be. He says that he loves me, which again, I do not doubt." If there is something like except lingering there, he doesn't say so. "The last time we spoke on it, when he learned I had been ill, he was at first very distressed, and so I know that he is sincere in his feelings. We also spoke of how I would put thee first, since Magnus had asked something like that, and I was curious to see whether he thought of his bond with Sagramore in a similar fashion."