What Edgar felt for Curtis wasn't love, never really had been. He knew that now. What Beth felt? He couldn't say but Edgar had thought that the way they smiled when they talked to or about one another had always looked how he felt when he was talking about Grantaire or Neil.

"I think by now I'm a bit of an authority in saying that no one ever wrote a rule that said you had to only ever love one man in your life." He was just lucky he'd found them both at the same time but maybe for Beth it was one and then another. She had time to figure it out, Edgar hoped.