I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.
... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.
Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.