[ 'You presume.' 'Make me.' 'You don't get that say.'
A number of immediate retorts, all suited for children's play, but in the end he favours honest: a frown, a shrug, complete dismissal. ]
...her. Yes. I'm afraid the tide's turned. We're no longer to marry. I -
[ He pauses. No. She's stubborn and irksome and a fool, but to say a girl - and a bastard at that - was rejected for matrimony is to ruin all her prospects. He's not so cruel. ]
She refused me. Well, what can I say to that? Her father's a lord, so... it stands that she wouldn't concern herself with the likes of me. [ And then, lightly. ] You should have said you meant to court her.
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A number of immediate retorts, all suited for children's play, but in the end he favours honest: a frown, a shrug, complete dismissal. ]
...her. Yes. I'm afraid the tide's turned. We're no longer to marry. I -
[ He pauses. No. She's stubborn and irksome and a fool, but to say a girl - and a bastard at that - was rejected for matrimony is to ruin all her prospects. He's not so cruel. ]
She refused me. Well, what can I say to that? Her father's a lord, so... it stands that she wouldn't concern herself with the likes of me. [ And then, lightly. ] You should have said you meant to court her.