les miserables again

when i read the part where eponine tells marius her secrets, for a second i was inclined to think that eponine must be jealous of cosette, inorder to drive her away by giving warning to jean valjean. but then i regretted the whole thought. eponine is never capable of such a lousy emotion as jealousy. she loved marius. to such extends that she protects his love cosette who is her rival. and that too playing on her life. how noble she is like her own brother gavroche. they like gold purified in fire and for poverty took the place of fire.