Tristan states that he loves the girl who lives in the garden.
The entire town comes to love the little girl and all the joy she brings to their everyday lives.
He does not really love the girl, but stays together with her just for sexual reasons and in wait of something better.
Yes, it sounds like to me that his grace loved the girl.
After all, he may love the 'new' girl, but does this mean that he has rejected the old?
I loved the girl once, or thought I did at the time.
Horrified at first, Sulley comes to love the little girl.
The two become friends, not knowing that they both love the same girl.
He did not love the girl and yet had loved her from the beginning of time.
Once assigned, the boys complain that each loves the other girl, and the girls feel the same.