Careful when it comes to how you talk about it, darling, I am rather fond of it. And I gained all those secrets and held onto them all by myself. Despite spies. [ The funny thing is that despite the fact that Irene had been at the centers of scandals before, she had kept most of her secrets to herself. ]

Even when it doesn't define or shape them, they seem to think they've learned a lesson and that if they give it to another it makes their lesson fly away with the wind. [ A smile, that seems almost lazy in its execution. ]

Even when that poetry is etched into those walls by a poet?