Oh, at first? Absolutely.

[ He leans in to pinch a second bite off the roll. ]

I told him so. I was very upfront, about that. Pretty much only that. That's what happened. We were coming up on a year, he was going to ask me to live with him. He thought he was going to surprise me, but, you know. [ He wiggles his fingers at his perceptive face. ] And I thought, I can't be Edouard all the time, forever. So if I love him, if I want this, I have to tell him the truth.

And then I stood him up.