A Deal with County Paris

Act 1, Scene 2: Earlier today, County Paris approached me to declare his wish to marry my beautiful, but very young daughter, Juliet. I can understand a man's desire to marry such a magnificent girl, but that is the issue at hand. She is still just a girl. She is not yet a developed woman. She is still naïve and has not experienced so much of the world yet. I told Paris to wait two more years, but he did not see eye to eye with me. He told me that even girls younger than Juliet marry and become happy, which is very true. But I know that young women who marry too soon, grow up too fast and I do not want that to happen to my precious Juliet. Although I was not too thrilled about a marriage between Paris and my daughter, I told him it was all right for him to try to charm her. If my little girl then decides that she wants to move forward into marriage with Paris, then they will have my blessing. Since I was having an upcoming dinner party where there would be many stunning women, I invited Paris so that he would be exposed to other women. Another woman might possibly catch his eye. Because the dinner party was soon, I sent out a messenger to distribute the invitations. I doubted that he would be too successful in getting all of the invitations to the people though. He is illiterate, so I understand him having difficulties knowing which people to give the invitations to. I figured he would find a way to get the job done though. When he returned with the job completed, he told me he got some help from two men on the street. He invited them to the party for helping him out. For some reason he mentioned hearing that one of the boys was heartbroken and the other one was trying to get him out of his misery. I do not really know why he felt the need to tell me this, but he did. That servant is such a silly goose.