She hesitates for a moment before she shakes her head, putting her knife down.
"My happiness is easy. I get to be here with you. I get to see you and learn about you all over again. That makes me happy, Dorian, and it would make me happy even if I wasn't a Marchioness capable of giving you jam and toast whenever you wanted it."
Which is the truth. Her friends have always been the most important thing and the fact that Dorian is willing to give her another chance, willing to show her his soul and let her do what she can to love him - in spite of it, in his mind, she supposes - means more to her than she can say. When she looks up again she's careful.
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"My happiness is easy. I get to be here with you. I get to see you and learn about you all over again. That makes me happy, Dorian, and it would make me happy even if I wasn't a Marchioness capable of giving you jam and toast whenever you wanted it."
Which is the truth. Her friends have always been the most important thing and the fact that Dorian is willing to give her another chance, willing to show her his soul and let her do what she can to love him - in spite of it, in his mind, she supposes - means more to her than she can say. When she looks up again she's careful.
"I am happy."