reality their love is fake Their love is all about looking good not feeling real Sergius is actually selfish and flirts with the maid Louka Raina thinks she loves Sergius but her feeling is only a romantic ideal in reality she is impressed by the practicality of Bluntschli So when Raina says to Sergius I think we two have found the higher love Shaw is actually mocking the foolish ideals about love Real Higher Love Bluntschli the pragmatic soldier shows what higher love means He does not pretend to be heroic Raina slowly falls for him because he is honest not flashy Their love grows when Raina stops pretending to be a noble lady and admits she helped Bluntschli escape Shaw says true love needs honesty not fairy-tale roles In short Shaw s conception is that higher love is a love based on honesty respect and mutual understanding What Raina and Sergius think of as higher love is not actually true love