In Etoire's birthday party, where Ripley drunkenly defended him when Geronis insult himself to Ripley(where she doesn't realize it was him at first). Ripley's words to him(when the duke asked what does she want to say to him when she meet him) were like magic, something that is akin to salvation(where he said something in him melted).
Anyways, in the novel, this scene in Geronis POV is pretty cute. Where he once thought Ripley was plain and normal(when he first knew who made the bomb shot), now he thought she was a beautiful being, that the color of her hair is unique in the seas of blonde. Anyways, he's lovestruck.
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why did the duke fall in love with ripley again?
I stopped reading this in chap 20 i think and im lost