[ He appreciates the care she takes to let him know that she isn't outright ignoring him, or that she's upset by his questions. He'd worried that he had been too forward, that this isn't something she wanted to discuss with him; though he, too, hoped she'd realized that he understood her, as different as they seem to be at first glance. Night and day, darkness and light. ]
You could go anywhere.
[ Her husband might not permit it, society might frown upon it, but he believes that she has what it takes to make it anywhere. She's much stronger than she realizes. ]
But I guess that makes two of us.
[ Enlisting had been his attempt to leave and belong elsewhere, but even that fell apart in the most terrible of ways. He's then since thought there's no place for him anywhere — his father can't even marry him off now because no Parisian woman in their circle wants to be burdened by him — and it makes him so angry and frustrated. ]
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You could go anywhere.
[ Her husband might not permit it, society might frown upon it, but he believes that she has what it takes to make it anywhere. She's much stronger than she realizes. ]
But I guess that makes two of us.
[ Enlisting had been his attempt to leave and belong elsewhere, but even that fell apart in the most terrible of ways. He's then since thought there's no place for him anywhere — his father can't even marry him off now because no Parisian woman in their circle wants to be burdened by him — and it makes him so angry and frustrated. ]