She spoke very gently.

"Still, it's better to know too little than too much," she said.

"And oh, Big Bear, I know such a lot." Merefleet looked at her sharply and surprised an expression on her face which he did not easily forget.
He knew in that moment that this woman had suffered, and his heart gave a wild, tumultuous throb.

From that moment he also knew that she had taken his heart by storm..