"I brought you some breakfast, dear," Mrs. Lovett said, walking into Todd's room. He was facing the window, lost in thought. He barely noticed Mrs. Lovett at all. She sat the tray down on the vanity. She stood in silence for several seconds. Her silence was what caught Todd's attention. Silence was not a common occurrence for Mrs. Lovett. To be honest, her chatter was rather pleasant. At times it kept him from venturing into the darkest corners of his mind. It kept him sane.
Mrs. Lovett could practically see the wheels turning in Mr. Todd's head. There was a pressing matter on her mind, something they had discussed the other night. In a way, she had confessed to him. She confessed she dreamed of living by the sea. With him. While he had not spurned her advances, he didn't encourage them either. Mrs. Lovett suspected, or perhaps she just dreamed, that he had a similar attraction to her.
"Mr. T? Can I ask you a question?" She stepped forward, almost leaning gently against his lax frame.
"What?" he whispered, coming back to the present. He didn't turn to face her as she talked, simply continued studying the bleak skyline.
"What did your Lucy look like?" Mrs. Lovett asked. It was a completely unexpected question. Of course Mrs. Lovett knew what Lucy looked like. She was just checking to see if he had moved on, no doubt. And he most certainly had not. Yet, he did hold a deep attraction to Mrs. Lovett. He just wasn't as comfortable as sharing it.
"You can't really remember can you?" Mrs. Lovett continued, after several moments of silence. This, of course, was false. Todd could never forget Lucy.
"She had yellow hair," he whispered, and his voice trailed off. Mrs. Lovett gently put her hand on his arm.
"You've got to leave this all in the past. Life is for the alive, my dear," she whispered gently. "We could have a life, us two. Maybe not like you remember. Maybe not like I dreamed. But we could get by." Todd turned to face her. Her eyes were gentle. How had he lived this long without her? She was the most devilishly cunning and beautiful woman.