'Competition' means that someone else might stand a chance, and they don't.
[Annnd that's all Nariko's gonna say, thank you very much! Maggie just sort of smiles, the expression itself is a little tight on her face, somehow, and she only relaxes when given the chance to turn the conversation towards another direction. There may or may not be something there, but whatever the case is Maggie won't discuss it, and Nariko certainly won't in public. It's a little difficult to tell whose listening, after all.
"So tell me why you want to marry my favorite granddaughter."
If he was ever under any illusion that he wasn't being harshly judged by a smiling old woman then Boxer was nuts. Her approval hasn't been won just yet.]
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[Annnd that's all Nariko's gonna say, thank you very much! Maggie just sort of smiles, the expression itself is a little tight on her face, somehow, and she only relaxes when given the chance to turn the conversation towards another direction. There may or may not be something there, but whatever the case is Maggie won't discuss it, and Nariko certainly won't in public. It's a little difficult to tell whose listening, after all.
"So tell me why you want to marry my favorite granddaughter."
If he was ever under any illusion that he wasn't being harshly judged by a smiling old woman then Boxer was nuts. Her approval hasn't been won just yet.]