My Pa can't find me if I am not in Paris. He won't bother - he will just swear and say, 'that ungrateful Eponine has drowned herself in the Seine at last', and my Mama will laugh and say, 'She were good for nuffin' anyway, that one'. They won't look for me here!

[She seems rather satisfied with that, and nods to herself. Moving to pull her knees to her chest and hug her arms about her legs, she shrugs.]

Is Japan your city, Sir? I have never heard of that - or perhaps I have, in the stories. I didn't know it was a truly real place. I thought it was like Greece and the stories they tell, the students, you know? Stories.