"I am not a wonder, simply a man," he says, with some finality to it. "If anything, it is --" He huffs out a breath in annoyance, but it is mostly difrected at himself. "I hardly know how to explain it; but I do not -- I am not worth you putting yourself below me. I do not see you as below me, nor should you place yourself there. You are more than that, Etienne."