Changing of the guard would take place as still drowsy doctor, in stockinged feet, padded silently into chamber of deposed Roi and fatigued Reine. Sympathetic squeeze was given to small shoulder and Aurore’s sleep filled eyes opened instantly. Rapidly awaking to find Reiley beside her bed, wifely concern, at once, turned to apprehension which could not be checked by simply surveying the faint rise and fall of lover’s chest. Weakening soul found no comfort until tiny hand was placed over still beating heart. Olive eyes then ran up and down husband’s length, he had not so much as moved all the time she had been asleep. For a moment she felt relieved that he had found some peace but in the next, in spite of the presence of other, Aurore lay herself back down, arms moving about beloved as she began to weep. Reiley left the way he had come, silently, allowing the woman, he had found to be so strong, the privacy she so needed to mourn for the moment, then pick herself back up in order to continue trying vigil.