[This is the part where Enjolras freezes a bit, automatically, and it is not because of Eponine herself, though the fact that a woman is hugging him is sort of bizarre, it's the idea of being touched in such a way by someone not of les amis that strikes him as...he is not sure, and for a moment, there is something in him that is overloaded.

If it provides her comfort now though, he reminds himself, he can surely grant that and awkwardly, with his arms quite tense, he attempts to arrange them like he has seen before when others comfort someone. What would Combeferre do, he wonders, then wonders why he did not think to simply GET Combeferre to fix this problem in the first place. But he is hardly going to leave her alone to contact him now.]

I am sorry then, Eponine, but surely there are happinesses to be found outside of Marius, and happiness to be had with him here while you both remain.