Susan remembers, with startling clarity, Lancelot saying Galahad is disarming. I can find no other way to deal with him than plainly. I dislike dishonesty in general, but he asked me outright and I did not even dissemble the day he told her he loved her.

So she doesn't say, I've not thought about it at all. She's thought about little else since he'd hinted marriage and children might be something he would want. She really ought to be speaking about this with Lancelot, but first she's got to find a way to school her comportment when she broaches the subject such that he doesn't feel wary and respond in a way he thinks she might want. She should like to know his true feelings on the subject.

"I'm happy as things are," she says instead. It's not a 'no,' though. "For a long time, I thought of marriage as duty I must fulfill for my country or my family, and a--" trap is an imprecise word-- "constraint which would prevent me from living my life in the way I prefer."