He wants to badly to believe this is true. That Cosette would not care, and love him anyway. But does he have any right to that love? And then there is the Baron, who made it clear that he would not be so accepting.
'Monsieur, she has a husband who knows the truth, and he is the master of their house.'
It is the only allusion he will make to Marius's reaction.
'And I do still see her - every day, for a little while. But I will consider what you have said.'
He will, too. For a while. But he has wrestled with this problem over and over again before taking the decisions he has, and there is only so much he can torture himself with things that now, cannot be changed.
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Date: 2015-11-21 02:46 pm (UTC)'Monsieur, she has a husband who knows the truth, and he is the master of their house.'
It is the only allusion he will make to Marius's reaction.
'And I do still see her - every day, for a little while. But I will consider what you have said.'
He will, too. For a while. But he has wrestled with this problem over and over again before taking the decisions he has, and there is only so much he can torture himself with things that now, cannot be changed.