Oh, she thinks she might be happy to let him speak forever if he was going to say such. It's like drinking fresh water on a hot day. She blinks, watching him like she's aware she's showing too much interest and reels herself back.

"It's how most have worked, to my knowledge." She counters only to hear him refute it, she thinks. "I hoped that the new world and France had taken up the cause of democracy, that perhaps others would." But it felt a dream, in truth. Something that happened to other people. "You would not see it such?"