I should certainly hope not, I'll have to stop making her so many dresses if she's only going to steal my fiancé as my thanks for it.
[Which strikes an odd note with her, as soon as the words leave her mouth — just the pure phrasing of it, dredging up echoes of Emmeline that never quite go away, but it's a testament to how far she's come that she's equally quick to shake it off, and settles comfortably against Dave instead.]
I think...it's hard to shake the notion that I ought to be, at my age. I-I know it's different in the modern times, but all that bit about the shelf, and...
[She pauses.]
More and more I come to realize that there were so many things about London that were just so...oh, what's the word. Pervasive...? And everyone just...treated them as musts and shall-bes and there was never any reason to think otherwise.
[And of course he knows that, too, all too well. There have been plenty of things in Dave's life that weren't as they ought to be, but he'd never known any different because they were treated that same way. Of course he understands that; neither one of them ever had things as they ought to be, and that's the whole reason for their fumbling to try to suss it out properly now.]
So...I suppose, to start with at least, I do want very much to be married. But...I don't feel as though I'm less for not being. I know I'm certainly not loved any less for it, and neither are you.
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[Which strikes an odd note with her, as soon as the words leave her mouth — just the pure phrasing of it, dredging up echoes of Emmeline that never quite go away, but it's a testament to how far she's come that she's equally quick to shake it off, and settles comfortably against Dave instead.]
I think...it's hard to shake the notion that I ought to be, at my age. I-I know it's different in the modern times, but all that bit about the shelf, and...
[She pauses.]
More and more I come to realize that there were so many things about London that were just so...oh, what's the word. Pervasive...? And everyone just...treated them as musts and shall-bes and there was never any reason to think otherwise.
[And of course he knows that, too, all too well. There have been plenty of things in Dave's life that weren't as they ought to be, but he'd never known any different because they were treated that same way. Of course he understands that; neither one of them ever had things as they ought to be, and that's the whole reason for their fumbling to try to suss it out properly now.]
So...I suppose, to start with at least, I do want very much to be married. But...I don't feel as though I'm less for not being. I know I'm certainly not loved any less for it, and neither are you.