I just don't want you to feel obligated to settle before you're ready, just because it's- [He gives a little shrug, over-modest.] Habit. Or comfortable. Or you've never tried out anything better.
Not lying so much as...underrating yourself.
Just look at you. [He reaches up and takes the hat off Franz's head, sliding his hands along the brim while his gaze rakes over Franz's face in almost painful admiration.] You're a fine catch, Franz. You don't know how many people say that to me- all the time, most of them in the most damnably facetious way, because we lark around like two distinguished, fetching, prematurely adult gentlemen who have known one another for half a lifetime.
And that's frightening me, sometimes, because it's scarcely been a year now. I know that people experience new things, and it changes them. Less that two years ago, my life was so different. And I'm...unnerved, when I sit back and realize that I don't know where I'd be, without you.
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Not lying so much as...underrating yourself.
Just look at you. [He reaches up and takes the hat off Franz's head, sliding his hands along the brim while his gaze rakes over Franz's face in almost painful admiration.] You're a fine catch, Franz. You don't know how many people say that to me- all the time, most of them in the most damnably facetious way, because we lark around like two distinguished, fetching, prematurely adult gentlemen who have known one another for half a lifetime.
And that's frightening me, sometimes, because it's scarcely been a year now. I know that people experience new things, and it changes them. Less that two years ago, my life was so different. And I'm...unnerved, when I sit back and realize that I don't know where I'd be, without you.