Amun answered him with a wide grin: "You truly are an idiot! Just look, a beautiful woman told you she would be your wife! Did you not sleep with her today? And shouldn't the relationship develop?"
But Kim was genuinely angry, and Amun didn't understand the reason for this fury.
With one word, just one word, Kim warned Amun that if he ever mentioned that topic again, he would abandon him.
Amun was not saddened, understanding he had gone too far.
Kim informed him that he knew Amun had tried to make him feel better by changing the subject, but he truly had not forgotten his beloved Mary.
Kim wanted nothing from Elena: neither beauty, nor money, nor status, nor pleasure. Instead, he wanted to be with the one he loved, someone who would be the support structure protecting him, and that she would be his feet in life. Every step he took, thanks to his wife.
"That is marriage!" Kim declared in a firm voice, "To have a wife as your support, and for the wife to have a shield to protect her from daily hardship. What is founded on a corrupt goal will yield bad results."