Back home, it would have been a scandal. Back home, it would have been impossible, though d'Artagnan knows that never kept him from wishing she would do it anyway, so the two of them could have a life together regardless of the circumstances. Here, though, it doesn't seem as if a divorce will be consequential at all, except to her, to the two of them. No one else will care. And though he'd have loved her all the same, spent the rest of his days with her, if she wanted to remain a married woman, he can't deny being selfishly pleased by her response. It's the best possible course of action. She shouldn't have to stay trapped with a man she doesn't love, even if only symbolically.

He smiles down at her, nothing but fond. "I can't say I don't like the sound of that myself," he says. "And... you know I'll be here for you, through all of it."