It's a stupid, selfish, and above all childish thing to say. But Frederic's tone and his words reach right into Giles' mind and flip all of the switches that the Malnosso flipped, switches that have only just been unflipped. The belief behind those words is, at least, sincere.
And so Giles does the one thing he feels capable of doing there and then.
no subject
It's a stupid, selfish, and above all childish thing to say. But Frederic's tone and his words reach right into Giles' mind and flip all of the switches that the Malnosso flipped, switches that have only just been unflipped. The belief behind those words is, at least, sincere.
And so Giles does the one thing he feels capable of doing there and then.
He beats a hasty retreat out of the kitchen.