The fact that Gideon doesn't answer tells her as much or more as if she had. Harrow's face looks melancholy, contemplative, even if Gideon can't see it. She traces the lines of the cavalier's palm with her finger.

She turns Gideon's hand around and carefully lifts it to her face, brushes her lips over the knuckles feather-light and presses them to her cheek before letting the hand go completely. She's not sorry for it, so she won't apologize, but she hopes Gideon will forgive her anyway. Again. Instead she just whispers, "Thank you," to the water.