Somehow, Éponine got the feeling that some people would've turned that into an innuendo. Not Marius, though, considering how blind he tended to be a good deal of the time.
"In other words... you choose your own path here. You live, just for the sake of living." This new world made that all so much easier. Even if some parts of it did take some adjusting to. "It... might take a while to get used to it. Even I'm not entirely settled."