[She's faintly more literal minded and so she didn't know it was satire. Having no normative basis to compare it to, it had just seemed like another fairy tale. She listens to his opinions, entranced by the depth he's thought these things through. As if this is a real world, and perhaps it is. Who can say if they all aren't characters in some story somewhere, bought in to Luceti by the whims of enthusiastic readers. Though that is giving the Malnosso far too much humanity than she wishes to grant them. In either case, the point is that Marco is completely adorable in his enthusiasm and she's not quite sure what to do about it]

Well, perhaps if he didn't want her to change, he shouldn't have left. That happens even now, you know. Men and women leave their loved ones [And children] to become pirates, marines, follow their own dreams and what is left for those left behind to do but to cope with the change. Perhaps even to the point where they must change themselves.

After all, how could she know how Westley cared for her and perhaps she only wanted to bring him back. Perhaps she was lonely.

[Robin has for the most part been self-sufficient but it's occurred to her in her past to change for others. For acceptance. For love. In the end, it had never been worth it]