"Do you... do you l-love him?"
Florence abruptly stopped crying after hearing that question from Ruth. She didn't answer right away and took some moments to collect her thoughts.
'Do I?' She questioned herself because the possibility had never crossed her mind before.
After thinking about it for some moments, she answered Ruth. "I do! Since the first time I laid my eyes on him, I was drawn towards him like a moth is attracted to the light."
"Why?" Ruth was astounded upon hearing that.
"Have you ever loved someone Ruth?"
Ruth answered instantly. "yes, my mother!"
Florence couldn't help but let out a peal of loud laughter that made Ruth puzzled.
"Oh, Ruth. You are so naive! I mean romatically. A man? Have you ever liked or loved any man?"
Ruth's ears burned and she slowly shook her head. She was in her early twenties and had spent enough life in the world but not once that thought crossed her mind.
"Thought so. Then you can not understand."
