[ Let the record reflect that Michel has learned this much!! It's not much. And yet, it's progress. ]

I didn't have the impression that he was the type of man to say those words lightly.

[ After the way Yael talked about his future, too. Michel's opinion of him is slipping a little. ]

Were you going to? After you finish your thesis—

[ He pauses, uncertain at the next step to assume. Move in together? Get married? ]