The Mercurial Helmsman is looking at reading Emma. His fiance is a fan of things associated with Jane Austen. When they started dating he and she swapped movie favors. He watched her miniseries, remakes and plays about Pride and Prejudice. Which he liked for their historical and relationship context. He does not know if she is someone who fantasizes about romance or who is a romantic. Is the romance a fantasy, an expectation or a reality? He hopes it is a reality, something stitched to her character like a knee patch. Though she is not the sort who wears patched old jeans, so perhaps her romance would be integral like a smoothed old cotton T-shirt. When he met her, she was disappointed about romance, about her attempts of pursuit, rejection and happenstance like betrayal. She seemed to imply that rejection is unlikely, that betrayal shouldn't happen, that loyalty be innate, that her objectives should bear more fruit, less consequence. She wants what she wants. She lives, reacts, emotes like a character from a novel with the predictability of truth and character. Based on how he saw her heart he seemed to think he should have been without past romance and totally emotionally available - without predictability, truth, honesty or character. Do they know each other's hearts? What will Emma say about their romance?