Where You Can’t Follow (Josette)

Josette says

Do you? Look, you are here how long?

A week at least?

After a week with me, you will want to marry me.

I need you to know now, I cannot marry you. I am a better lover than a wife.

I am giving you a gift, can you understand? The gift of my love.

But it is all I can give.

Now you say “okay” but later you will try to get me to marry you. I would suggest you not try this. It would be the end of us. When a man asks me to marry him I have to say goodbye. I am serious. Marriage is a death to me. Do you want me to die?

Then when you feel yourself want to ask for marriage with me, you must think twice. You understand?

You make jokes but it is not funny. I have to beat off my suitors with a tree.