"Strange how people's feelings change, isn' it?" the Doctor said, a little hurriedly. What he really needed was time alone to process all this. And, yes, to leave. Possibly at any other time he would have delighted in all this, but now...?

It was too soon. Too soon after Rose, too soon after the Satan Pit.* He just wasn't ready.

He bit into another jelly baby. "Will do," he answered. "How is the baby, anyway?"


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* From the episodes The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, in which the Doctor defeats a monster very much like our own devil.