"'I had to take action,' he said. 'I'm in love with you. How could I help being?'
"'Do you expect me to believe that? Oh, hell, just for this voyage, I will. Come here again.'"
-CHAPTER NINE, p. 88.
"Nor was her own world the same as his: could never be."
-CHAPTER EIGHTEEN, p. 189.
But surely he had realized that all along?
When he has refused to become her "'...kept man...'," (ibid.) she tells him:
"'Don't worry about me. Dancers know how to land on their feet.'
"A slight gladness stirred in him, largely because he was relieved of any obligation to fret about her." (p. 190)
The mature Flandry will declare love only when he is serious about making a commitment.
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Kaor, Paul!
And Persis, being older and more mature than Flandry was then, understood that and did not try to bind him to her.
Ad astra! Sean
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