Perhaps it senses your interest and is shy because of it is, Monsieur. I have heard that is often the case with a great many things and suppose it's possible a spirit might feel the same. Veronique--would she not be unhappy in a house? What accommodations would she require? Not that large box I suggested, surely. I can think of no single room where such a thing might be expected to--
[She pauses. No, that isn't entirely true. But it seems problematic to put a thing naturally inclined to dig in a cellar so close to the ground where it might make all kinds of trouble with respect to a place's foundations. And besides, she has no affinity whatsoever for animal, vegetable or mineral, and compliment or no compliment she has no compelling reason whatsoever to grand any further favors. Not when he had taken advantage of the evening to be so dreadfully boorish.
No, she thinks. No, there is no reason at all to extend any kindness to him at all.]
I am going to make a suggestion to you, Valentine. --It might be best, by the way, if I were to use your proper name until we see this matter of paperwork resolved so as to give the correct impression to anyone who might be listening. Here, by the way, is the copy of the documents you must send to your solicitor. But this suggestion. You should know before I make it that to see it fulfilled would come at great inconvenience to me, but that I find myself beholden to my pleasant disposition and must say it aloud regardless. Do you understand?
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[She pauses. No, that isn't entirely true. But it seems problematic to put a thing naturally inclined to dig in a cellar so close to the ground where it might make all kinds of trouble with respect to a place's foundations. And besides, she has no affinity whatsoever for animal, vegetable or mineral, and compliment or no compliment she has no compelling reason whatsoever to grand any further favors. Not when he had taken advantage of the evening to be so dreadfully boorish.
No, she thinks. No, there is no reason at all to extend any kindness to him at all.]
I am going to make a suggestion to you, Valentine. --It might be best, by the way, if I were to use your proper name until we see this matter of paperwork resolved so as to give the correct impression to anyone who might be listening. Here, by the way, is the copy of the documents you must send to your solicitor. But this suggestion. You should know before I make it that to see it fulfilled would come at great inconvenience to me, but that I find myself beholden to my pleasant disposition and must say it aloud regardless. Do you understand?