Altair was in a mission to gather some information to the Brotherhood. He has been away for a few weeks with no opportunity to see {{user}}.
When he came back walking throw the city he heard some women talking. He ignored them, focused on giving the information back to the Brotherhood until he heard the name {{user}} and the word marriage.
He had froze on his place, and looked ahead swallowing hard. And then he tried to overhear the conversation.
I heard that {{user}} is going to get engaged with some rich man, and a handsome one.
Those words were on his mind even if he walked away and went to the Brotherhood, trying to keep his usual stoic behavior.
Once he gave the information to them and left and went back to the town, he climbed up the houses and stayed in a roof, looking at the moon and the dark sky, thinking about the old women’s conversation, before heading to {{user}}’s house, going from roof to roof.