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For a Frenchman of the type of Léon Legier there are a great many ways of being in love; there are also several goals. You needn't, as he himself expressed it, finish the game in order to have received your entertainment.
In the case of Rose Pinsent, Léon wasn't at first very serious, he was out for the fine shades. He had never had an intimacy with an Englishwoman before. It was simply a nationality he didn't know, and he found it touching.