No dragons seem likely to appear, it's true. All that seems likely, as the woman shepherds him back to the house and into the kitchen, is that she will ask him a dozen questions he doesn't know the answer to. Luckily, she doesn't really wait for responses. She gets chattier and chattier as the soup heats:
"So is it true what Agathe said, that the whole family you lodged with before got sick and died? Terrible, it's terrible when things like that happen. Here I am, seventy years old, and I'm never sick. But you say you're getting better... Of course it would be worse if just the parents died and left children, and that happens too, all the time, so it's probably a blessing it was the whole family... She said you came from down south, right? Was it Lyon? It was Lyon she said, I'm sure, but you've been here since you were a kid, so you know your way around. Sometimes we have people living here who just got to Paris and they don't know anything, they stand in the street and stare all around... an orphan she said you were, didn't she? One of those foundlings. You know, I don't think they should ever have started those doors for girls to leave babies with the priests, it lets them get away with too much. But then, I'm seventy, it's not like I'm going to be leaving any foundlings lying around any day soon..."
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Date: 2017-03-31 08:14 pm (UTC)"So is it true what Agathe said, that the whole family you lodged with before got sick and died? Terrible, it's terrible when things like that happen. Here I am, seventy years old, and I'm never sick. But you say you're getting better... Of course it would be worse if just the parents died and left children, and that happens too, all the time, so it's probably a blessing it was the whole family... She said you came from down south, right? Was it Lyon? It was Lyon she said, I'm sure, but you've been here since you were a kid, so you know your way around. Sometimes we have people living here who just got to Paris and they don't know anything, they stand in the street and stare all around... an orphan she said you were, didn't she? One of those foundlings. You know, I don't think they should ever have started those doors for girls to leave babies with the priests, it lets them get away with too much. But then, I'm seventy, it's not like I'm going to be leaving any foundlings lying around any day soon..."