And Eponine? You are so much older than she is? You were so much older at the time?

[There is an eyebrow more like one that Combeferre might give him now, something of his manner creeping over into Enjolras as he asks this question, a little frown crossing his face.]

One cannot blame a child for cruelty, Eponine. If that is all that he or she has known, and grown to know. It is not right that they must live in, and grow up with such, that it becomes a second nature, but it is nothing that is their...your fault.