"But you chose this place for yourself here, now…?" John points out, a gentle question in his voice, though he is not without kindness. He misses Jamie too — had missed him, under different circumstances, both before, and then more recently, when he too thought he had been dead. And then… Then the man has reappeared and John had been fool enough to tell him the truth.

"You did choose this place for yourself now," he points out. Was it to have something of him here with her, he wonders? His expression softens. She had said she thought they both might have died in that storm, and knowing that, knowing that she chose Lallybroch knowing that.

He fights the urge to reach out and take her hand. The pair of them do not know each other well enough, in her mind, for such informalities.