[ That reaction is more telling than anything else she could say. She doesn't dismiss him as having been in some sort of drugged or drunken stupor, doesn't deny the existence of visions outright, doesn't tell him that he has just succumbed to some madness. No. She says only that they're temptations.

That leaves one answer clear in his mind: she's seen them too. He can see what distress she's in, but Claude has never been one to let others' distress stop him from what he wants, and what he wants now, what he's wanted ever since he discovered his whole life was a lie, is the truth.

He goes very, very still. ]

Hunh. So you've seen them too. [ His eyes narrow, looking at her as though he can see right through her. ]

Temptation is a funny way of putting it. I didn't see anything any person in their right mind would want to run towards. Rather, the temptation would be to flee. But if you found it tempting... what is it that you saw, Marianne?