‘I understand what that means, Fernand: you want to blame him because I do not love you, and cross his dagger with your Catalan knife!
“I understand you, Fernand; you will be revenged on him because I do not love you; you would cross your Catalan knife with his dirk. What end would that answer? To lose you, my friendship if he were conquered, and see that friendship changed into hate if you were conqueror. Believe me, to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man. No, Fernand, you will not thus give way to evil thoughts. Unable to have me for your wife, you’ll still content yourself with having me for your friend and sister."
