Even saying that, I worry that it'll come back and haunt Jack. I mean, being passed over for a marriage proposal because of some lowtowner-- I don't think of it in terms like this but that doesn't mean others won't. I wanna know he's... safe.

[Alright so he had just inadvertently confessed as to the why he wasn't wanting to marry Adele. But he wasn't about to back down, now. Plus, she was smiling warmly at him and it made the little boy he was feel warm in return. To know he had her blessing to call this off was an immense relief. It wouldn't make it easy, but definitely surmountable.]

Or at least as safe as I can make him. I know he's not exactly helpless, but... some things are bigger than the two of us.