In Sickness And In Health

He needed her. All her married life Narcissa had depended on her husband, confident that his mind, power and magic would always be enough to protect her. Now she made the startling discovery that Lucius, who had never seemed to depend on anybody, needed her.

Even more startling, and this was only to be admitted in the small, dark, guilty space at the bottom of her soul, this was not something she entirely disliked.