Of course I do. [What a strange remark. Val's nose wrinkles.] It comes of having very much to say.
[And all of it very important, which of course goes entirely without saying. They are going up the stairs. Val now looks back over his shoulder (and, by extension, Bastien's, since he is a little ahead of him upon the stairs), to where the hatchet-faced old woman's shadow can still be seen, there at the bottom of the stair, cast upon the wall in judgement and disagreeability.]
What 'young girl'?
[Miss Poppell may have some advice. Val de Foncé is having his own thoughts now.]
no subject
[And all of it very important, which of course goes entirely without saying. They are going up the stairs. Val now looks back over his shoulder (and, by extension, Bastien's, since he is a little ahead of him upon the stairs), to where the hatchet-faced old woman's shadow can still be seen, there at the bottom of the stair, cast upon the wall in judgement and disagreeability.]
What 'young girl'?
[Miss Poppell may have some advice. Val de Foncé is having his own thoughts now.]