[Robert and Rosalind, and she only ever called him his full name, but the nicknames he'd come up for her . . . Rosie my Rosie, only ever in private, but he adores being sweet like that.
It would be easy to get lost in that. She might even tell Javert a bit more, although not to excess. But it's hard not to notice how stiff he goes when he says Valjean's name. How he says the name, the intensity with which those two words are uttered.
She wants to know more. But pressing too hard will make him retreat, and anyway, that isn't their way.]
Mm. One area in which his kindliness did not extend: his name. He had a friend who would never fail to get under his nerves when he called him by a nickname. A rival would do the same, albeit for much pettier purposes. Robbie sounds childish, he would tell me, and he wasn't wrong, but he'd get so petulant about it.
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[Robert and Rosalind, and she only ever called him his full name, but the nicknames he'd come up for her . . . Rosie my Rosie, only ever in private, but he adores being sweet like that.
It would be easy to get lost in that. She might even tell Javert a bit more, although not to excess. But it's hard not to notice how stiff he goes when he says Valjean's name. How he says the name, the intensity with which those two words are uttered.
She wants to know more. But pressing too hard will make him retreat, and anyway, that isn't their way.]
Mm. One area in which his kindliness did not extend: his name. He had a friend who would never fail to get under his nerves when he called him by a nickname. A rival would do the same, albeit for much pettier purposes. Robbie sounds childish, he would tell me, and he wasn't wrong, but he'd get so petulant about it.