I did! I do! I have still got her, hidden away, protected by charms--it's like a fairy-tale, except instead of a princess it's an evil rat--ah, but she has my heart, and that gleam in her eye, it isn't hate, it's love, I know it's love--

TEN!

[He shouts that, suddenly, interrupting himself, and she ought to be able to hear it, echoing out in the corridor--]

Open your door, or else I'm going to slam into it--