"As you wish, 'Ponine, but please call me by my name as well." He stumbled over the nickname slightly, unaccustomed to the informality. Everyone was, to him, Citizen, or Monsieur and Madame. Her insistence on anything else was in itself unique. "And yes, I will teach you English. It's only fair that we should help each other."

It was difficult not to smile sadly at that. Somehow Enjolras suspected this girl wouldn't understand much of fairness, at least not his definition of it. "I am a fast learner, I assure you. I promise to be a very good student."