Some people never say the words I love you, it's not their style to be so bold.

Aside from three decades, here's the difference between Kindness and the Lady of the House.

They're both so strong and intelligent and independent, but then, I know underneath there's this vulnerable person. In Kindness's case, it manifests itself in these wonderful awkward bouts of loveliness. For Lady, it's more confusion when someone tells her she's good, or good at something.

I wonder why she can't take a compliment. There's got to be something that's stopping her. I think it's something similar to one of my friends- she doesn't believe it because everyone says it to everyone, though, in her case, it's true. But oh, they're both lovely, and they need reassuring but not in the conventional way that reassuring's meant.

The Lady would have no problem saying the words I love you, if she did. Kindness, on the other hand, would have massive problems. I don't even know if she'd like to hear it. She would like to be shown it. She shows it herself, and that's more comfortable for her I think. I could live with that. Like I did with him, I'd just say it quietly into her hair one night as she was drifting off to sleep, all cuddled up with me. Just so I could say it, but she'd never have to return such an onerous gift.

It took a little time to get next to me

That's applicable to both of them. It doesn't take any time to be let into Lady of the House, but I think there's a little bit of her she keeps just for herself, that noone else knows about. I'd like to be let into that. Kindness is similar; she puts up more of a wall, but I know that once you're out you're out. I wish I could remember what we fell out about.