"Oh, darling, I'm not in the least insulted," Liliana assured him. "We wouldn't suit at all. Whether or not you like peaches doesn't mean I'm not still delicious." She waved a hand. "I know you have some idea of what the ideal marriage looks like, but I think you're forgetting that all it really takes is him."

And if she were to be glancing at someone right now that wasn't Watts, well, Steven would surely understand.

"I have never cared overmuch about marriage. When you take away all the things that it's for - property, children, religion, civil authority, chastity - what's left? What's the point of it? That's what I thought for a very long time...and then Ignis asked me to marry him and I realized that I was wrong. Marriage isn't meaningless. The meaning is him." She looked back to Steven, her violet eyes deep and fathomless and full of the weight of two centuries. "Don't let someone else's definitions take what you could have away from you, Steven."