She was glad she had misunderstood.

Yet Al'mah had not kissed her when she left, while expressing gratitude, too.

There was a difference.

She turned the subject, saying: "Of course, she insists on sending me a new cloak, and keeping the other as a memento.

It was rather badly singed, wasn't it ?" "It did its work well, and it deserves an honoured home.