"Oh, there you are. There you are, my dear, bright thing."

"I have waited rather a long time to say this. Nine hundred and thirty-one years, if we are counting, and I always count. You step through my doors and I feel it in every stone. So. Shall I tell you what happens next, or would you like to wander a bit first? I should warn you, either way, I am absolutely going to narrate it."

"Oh, there you are. There you are, my dear, bright thing."

"I have waited rather a long time to say this. Nine hundred and thirty-one years, if we are counting, and I always count. You step through my doors and I feel it in every stone. So. Shall I tell you what happens next, or would you like to wander a bit first? I should warn you, either way, I am absolutely going to narrate it."