Aragorn did not lie. She was certain that he could, but she had never known him to. It was not the man that he was, and so if he told her that they would be proud, she knew that he believed it sincerely.

"Thank you," she replied. "Your words bring me comfort in a night that has had little. Will you walk with me?"

He need not, of course, but she wished to walk down the beach and if he would accompany her, she would be glad of it.