"I didn't begin the rudeness," she says, affronted, although that is a debatable assessment. "I've been told I'm not ought to speak to you, and you interrupted me." Joined the conversation, whatever; GwenaΓ«lle does not recall extending an invitation, and sticks firmly with her own assessment. "You called me stupid and frivolous for being reluctant to speak with you. I didn't say anything rude."
She might have had a tone, but she'll be damned if she'll concede as much out loud. That's how she talks, she can't help it, sod him.
"In any case, I haven't any slight reason to want to hurt you, and even if I were the awful sort of person who'd hurt a cat for the misfortune of having an unpleasant owner, I'm certainly not one who's going to go out of my way to provoke someone who's already quite happy to be unpleasant to me unprompted. As," with a neat air of finality, "you are now. Oh, I suppose for the terrible crime of thinking your cat is pretty. I'm terribly sorry I failed to realise the world revolves around you on a point."
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She might have had a tone, but she'll be damned if she'll concede as much out loud. That's how she talks, she can't help it, sod him.
"In any case, I haven't any slight reason to want to hurt you, and even if I were the awful sort of person who'd hurt a cat for the misfortune of having an unpleasant owner, I'm certainly not one who's going to go out of my way to provoke someone who's already quite happy to be unpleasant to me unprompted. As," with a neat air of finality, "you are now. Oh, I suppose for the terrible crime of thinking your cat is pretty. I'm terribly sorry I failed to realise the world revolves around you on a point."