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I'm certain your calculations were quite accurate regarding what I led you to believe. [ meaning she's aware she'd deceived him in her own right. she's never lied about her age or anything else regarding her past; she'd simply omitted this part.
but that will have to wait. she needs to address something else. no he hadn't overstepped any bounds with her. after all, she had been the one to initiate something more intimate between them that night in the clinic. as though to reassure him, she moves her hands and places them on his, gazing directly into his eyes. ]
Our relationship ended a long time ago, Jean-Luc. I am not the fragile, innocent woman who needs him. I am not his Helen and we both know it. [ in essence, he doesn't have anything to worry about. she isn't going to break his heart and run off with her former lover. she would never forgive herself. and besides, she's in love with someone else, with the man sitting next to her at her kitchen table. she gives his hands a squeeze. ]
We had our chance and now I have a chance with someone else. At some point, I thought we could discuss what it is between the two of us, Jean-Luc, but perhaps that should wait until I address the issue of my age.
[ she's going to give him this last piece of the puzzle before asking him to decide if he wants a romantic relationship with her. he needs more of the full picture before she'll consider it appropriate to ask. only when he seems to accept her response does she reach with one hand -- the other will remain firmly on his until he moves it -- for this. ]