Quote Originally Posted by ManOfWesternesse View Post
This may be a lot deeper possibility than you'd think though.
Certainly she was very immediately, and very strongly, smitten with Cuthbert when she first met him.
*goes off to booksearch*
"Then his gaze returned to her and he gave a smile of such sweetness that a confused but brilliant thought (If I'd met this one first-, it began) shot through her mind like a comet."
I would hope I would be much more smitten with the strength of a sweet smile, and overcome my confusion, and follow the brilliant thought that this is perhaps someone I should be with, than a man I'd end up burning tied to a tree for. But hey, maybe that's just me.