[ She keeps this to voice, to spare him, if only a little. He is not the knave she knew, Alice has accepted that much. He is at least he's not like them, the card guards. And so she breaks her silence, because he is of Wonderland and Alice will protect anything from Wonderland.
voice;
As much as she has vowed to destroy it, too. ]
Love is far from a weakness, poor knave.