"I could disguise myself as a girl, would that help any? Vows of chastity? Why? I mean, you do you, but..."

"I'm not supposed to talk to anyone, actually, due to the deep trouble I am already in. I haven't taken vows, yet, the nunnery's just supposed to keep me in line, but most novices wouldn't get within ten feet of you."

"I, uh, disrecommend vows of chastity to anyone who doesn't know what they're missing. Why are you in deep trouble?"

Rueful expression. "Knowing what I'm missing."

"I like you. I don't want to get you in trouble, should I in fact come back disguised as a girl and we can sing a duet -"

"I think someone might notice you sing - lemme guess, baritone?"

"Sure, but not if I'm disguised as a girl, it's a really good disguise. I have seriously mysterious access to exotic foreign stuff."

"Like I said, I'm not actually supposed to talk to anybody, I'm being tamed from my sinful ways and not to be exposed to worldly influences etcetera."

"How long does that last?"

"Till the part with the vows, probably longer. I'm thinking about how to run off before that."

"Where for, do you know -"

"I was thinking grab my baby and show up in the Colonies swearing I had a husband and he was dead, why, do you have exotic foreign suggestions?"

" - that detail had not been mentioned. I do not have exotic foreign suggestions though I could probably do, like, nice clothes and a trunk of jewelry to make the swearing to that effect more convincing."

"All this for the price of a duet, huh, or might I show up in New York with two babies," she deadpans.

" - I mean, I did show up here to hit on you but that was before you explained about vows of chastity and babies and the necessity of fleeing the country, I am not anywhere near the degree of asshole required to hear that and think 'great, I can buy her -'"

"You wouldn't be the first, people tend to assume."

"Where I'm from you could challenge them to a duel over it, makes people careful about assumptions."

"Women don't duel. Where do women duel? You don't sound foreign."

"I'm from a place where they speak English but women duel. When I found out my last girlfriend was cheating on me we had a spectacular public duel - to first blood, it wasn't a serious relationship and I wasn't going to issue a serious challenge over it - and it was marvellously satisfying."

"Who won?"

"I did! Not that it really mattered, honor's satisfied all around either way, but I get into a lot of duels and am accordingly very good at it."

"I take it this wasn't a gun duel, then. D'you fence?"

"...mysterious exotic foreign weapons."

"You're very, very mysterious and exotic and foreign for somebody without an accent or a weird outfit or anything, Michael."

"I suppose I could also be lying outrageously. People do that to pretty girls, probably even more if the pretty girls can't duel 'em. The chocolates are real, though."