"I was bored," Marian told him honestly. "Trapped in that life all day, having men come courting for my father's money, watching the way my peers treated the poor that served us. I lived among people who didn't care about anything but having the finest fabrics and the biggest pearls, didn't care about the suffering all around as long as their every desire was met. If I'd married you," she said, looking at him properly, her words hard, "I would have thrown myself from the battlements on the wedding night before ever letting you defile me."