'He smiled, his expressive brown eyes tender and gentle as he nodded; apparently he saw in that smile all the things that I wanted to say, but couldn’t find the words to express. How can you put into words how wonderful, how life-changing that kind of experience was? I didn’t know how, and somehow, he knew what I was trying to convey to him, because he didn’t make me. There was no real need for words anyway, not then, not with him'