"I lost my brother eight years ago, I understand." She doesn't want to talk about Steve, because apparently Steve hadn't been dead. And yet, two years without him had been brutally painful in a way that made the ache inside her twist her up and close off to all possibilities until Daniel had chipped his way through and Angie had levered in and so had Jarvis. All that time she had spent trying to protect her heart and people had still found a way in.

"Will you tell me about him?" Peggy suggests. "If it's not too painful."