You're listening to me telling you something important.

[she doesn't let go of Pitou at this moment, staring them down.]

All of this changes nothing about our friendship. Not one bit of it. Call it whatever you want to evade that fact, but as someone who might as well be your mentor as well as your friend, that needs to get through your skull. I can take you disliking this situation with grace, but I won't forgive you if you actually decide to be stupid and do something. For the sake of us, take a second to breathe.

[she lets that hang in the air a second.]

I'm not going to leave you just because I've gotten engaged. These things happen to people in their lives - they grow, new things happen, new opportunities come up. It doesn't mean they trash the old things that they value in the bargain. But he makes me happy, and you need to relax a little and let me go ahead with my own life. If it was you, finding someone who made you happy, then you know I'd be there beside you ready to support your happiness.

Have faith in me, if you can't have it in both of us, that I'm not going to let us drift apart or anything really change.

[ . . . ]

Besides, he has three cats at his house. Friendly, beautiful creatures.