"If I put a candle on this table, you wouldn't touch it indiscrimately, would you? You learned long ago that a flame would burn you, and to be watchful for what else could be hot enough to harm."

She gestures at him, his demeanor, his neat appearance. "And since I have known you, you've come to understand new things about your former master and about yourself. You've learned that it helps you to write things down, and you're beginning to learn how it is you love. So I think you can learn to think before you trust -- to look for signs of whether a person is worthy your trust and your love and your surrender."