Tyler nodded politely at Rowena on her acceptance of the chair and smiled reassuringly at her suggestion that another had fallen on this most interesting of evenings. Yearning to show how important she had become to him, he took her hand and smiled at her before remarking “Then I hope that these are all that have fallen on this night for if I had lost you or indeed my man, Cooper, here, to a leaser extent of course, I would be quite inconsolable.” Cooper turned away for a moment and smiled at the Major’s words.<br/><br/>Wishing not to make light of their deaths Tyler continued “Of course it upsets me that such fine people have lost there lives and I hope that the law can find the perpetrators to bring peace to William’s family. Let us hope this has a swift resolution so that we can all be on our way before morn.”<br/>