"Mmm... better use 'Molly Wadsworth' again.  This one is pretty icky.  And title it The Other Manger.  Start again." He went on talking while watching her closely.  When tears started to leak out of her closed eyes he smiled slightly and closed his own eyes.  By the time he finished, tears were running down his cheeks as well as hers, both bathed in a catharsis of schmaltz.