Ellory couldn't really be mad at Claude for having been in love with other people, seeing that Ellory had done the same. She had had an obsessive crush in the past. Her first kiss, even, had been to someone other than Claude! She couldn't tell him that, of course. Cousin or not, he was a man, and he had to think that Ellory would get to experience everything with him for the first time. In the case of sex, she most definitely would, as it appeared that her relatives' poor instructions would cause for him to actually teach her about it.

"Well, Evelyn said that we both have jigsaw pieces and my piece only fits your piece, for some reason. This doesn't really make sense, unless I was born to be your wife, after all, so nature created me with your jigsaw piece in mind. But then she told me that your jigsaw piece fits many female jigsaw pieces, which would imply that there are more women with anatomy like mine, which would then imply that there are more men with anatomy with yours, otherwise a whole lot of women wouldn't be able to get married because their jigsaw piece wouldn't fit their husband's but only yours." She couldn't really keep a straight face as she explained matters to him. In truth, she wasn't really taking things that seriously. "Do you reckon that's the reason why Arabs have harems? They found the solution to the jigsaw puzzle problem!"