Then I am even more honoured. [A lifetime of Renaissance politeness and giving the dead their dignity will never be forgotten.]

I am sure it must be strange to find that but still...comforting in some way to know that no matter what place we call our own, there are those we can relate to. We are not so different after all.

[It's nice to say those words with a positive meaning, rather than hearing them from the lips of someone who had a misguided sense of what they were doing.]

I have to wonder just how far she will go to have us pair off together and her true reasons for it. It is normal for it to be a man and a woman, normally agreed on with a bride price by the family and often for power and status, securing family relations far more than for love.

[Ezio's own...dalliances have been kept quiet, nameless, faceless women and courtesans for the most part, Cristina the chaste love of two young girls and Caterina something entirely different that still ended with the other woman riding off into the sunset.]