The Doctor, Lance and others in “The Runaway Bride”

Oh, is that what she's offered you, the Empress of the Racnoss? What are you, her consort?

[glances at Donna] It's better than a night with her.

But I love you.

That's what made it easy. It's like you said, Doctor. The big picture. What's the point of it all if the human race is nothing? That's what the Empress can give me. The chance to... to go out there to see it, the size of it all. I think you understand that, don't you, Doctor?