"No, but you mustn't deny yourself the possibility for happiness without even giving it a chance," Gen replied, her voice soft, yet firm in her opinion. She truly did not know how to simply drop things. "I don't mean to say that you must be more than friends, Penny. I'm only- I suppose I don't agree with your immediate refusal that anything could ever happen between you two. What if you found your soulmate- if not in him, but in someone else like him? Would you pass on the opportunity for love, or true happiness, simply because of the family he was born into? All I mean to say is that you could miss out on the best thing in your life if you don't keep your mind open for love. Would your soulmate be any less your soulmate just because he wasn't born into the high society mother wishes to associate with?"
"I'm sure we'll find something. I did promise Julius I'd bring lunch out to him, but you have me all morning- and all afternoon, as well!"