“You are in love with your cousin, are you not?”
“You are very bold to ask such a question.”
“It is not a question, it is a fact. Well, my advice is this: make your cousin love you, and become her husband.”
“And why do you take this interest in me, Master Patience?”
“Because I know you deserve it.”
“Who told you so? The abbe?”
“No.”
“Edmee?”
“Partly. And yet she is certainly not very much in love with you. But it is your own fault.”
“How so, Patience?”