"You --" He stops abruptly. "You can't leave. You've told me, where I go, you go. If I don't leave, you can't either."

Well, that is simply the weakest attempt at keeping her with him, but there you have it. He isn't thinking very clearly right now, anyway, and something inside him suddenly hurts.

"And -- well, I never expected you to be a lady, remember? When I went in search of that falling star, I had expected to find a rock."

He crosses his arms.

"You can be rest assured that I won't be making any other promises to any other girls. There is only one girl for me, and her name is Victoria Forester."