[ Claude's many things. But he's not an absolute monster. He's not going to antagonize a young girl, still not yet of age, who's telling him about the young and tragic deaths of her parents. For all of Claude's difficulties with his own parents - for all that he has neither seen nor spoken to them in years, save for awkward run-ins in public space - they are still alive, after all. It's true that Ange has the bearing of someone much higher class, that her reservations are things that the lower class generally don't bear, aware of Claude's status as a bartender as a necessary evil in an increasingly exhausting world, but that doesn't mean she has to be rich. Perhaps they're religious. Conservative. They've never liked Claude much either. ]
Now we're even, I'd say. You had misconceptions about me, and I had misconceptions about you. [ He raises a brow at her. ] Do you think you can admit that much?
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[ Claude's many things. But he's not an absolute monster. He's not going to antagonize a young girl, still not yet of age, who's telling him about the young and tragic deaths of her parents. For all of Claude's difficulties with his own parents - for all that he has neither seen nor spoken to them in years, save for awkward run-ins in public space - they are still alive, after all. It's true that Ange has the bearing of someone much higher class, that her reservations are things that the lower class generally don't bear, aware of Claude's status as a bartender as a necessary evil in an increasingly exhausting world, but that doesn't mean she has to be rich. Perhaps they're religious. Conservative. They've never liked Claude much either. ]
Now we're even, I'd say. You had misconceptions about me, and I had misconceptions about you. [ He raises a brow at her. ] Do you think you can admit that much?