She looked into his eyes, sheltered under the brim of his uniform cover.
She hadn't expected him to react so violently to her suggestion.
She stepped back, feeling her narrow heels slip on the wet snow underfoot.
As her body slid, she sensed, rather than felt, the impact of her head with the handrail.
She started to reach up to him, expecting him to raise her up and comfort her as the warm blood started to seep down her cold neck. Her baby limited the flexibility of her normally-supple body as she struggled to sit up.
She remembered vaguely (from her first aid training at NROTC) that a split scalp tended to bleed profusely; she hoped that the stitching at the hospital would be within her hairline so that nothing would show long term.
He picked her up, laying across his arms, then stood up, leaning against the bridge rail.
She began a startled scream as she realised he was moving her towards the bridge handrail.
Her woozy senses realised that something was very wrong, as his face receded from her view.
The freezing waters overwhelmed her. The shock of the cold brought her back to full alertness – and triggered a cough reflex which, sadly drew in nothing but river water.
The torrent of icy flood water carried her swiftly down the river. Within 30 seconds her fate was sealed.
Loren's last (uncharacteristically unselfish) conscious thought was "I wonder how my baby girl would have turned out" as the darkness – and the river water – closed over her.
She could not know that some months would pass before the discovery of her body - and the turmoil at JAG HQ which would result when she emerged from the ice.
RIP Lt Loren Singer, USN JAG Corps; 5th January 2003 – the woman whose death launched "NCIS".