"When it is safe, you should eat, yes." Combeferrre agreed, quite firm on that point. "But here I think that, well, I am reminded of a story from the Greeks." Figuring that Eponine will not have heard of it before, but needing to save time, the explanation will have to be GOOD.

"Persephone came into the underworld with Hades, the god of Death and the Dead. And when she ate the foo he offered, she was bound to remain there with him. The only way she was a little saved is that she only ate a bit of what was offered, and was able to return to her mother, and the other gods for Spring and Summer. I think that this...eating here may trap you...Eponine!"

As Eponine starts going off with Marius, Combeferre is running close on their heels. "This is not Marius, lovingly as he looks at you. He wears his face, but Marius would never want to take you away from everything, Marius would remember both insult to the Empire and everything that happened at his first meeting. Those are not things he could put aside so easily."

Passionate nostrils though he has, Combeferre is on the heels of the Not! Marius, launching himself at the man's back in order to tackle him. "Eponine, do not go any further please! Listen to me! This all seems like a trap!"