Rats can love! If dogs can love, then rats can love--

[He grins, when she opens the door, and he lets himself be tugged in, stumbling only a little. You can't go from half-running down a corridor to being pulled into a room without a little stumbling.]

I can't help myself. I get very enthusiastic when it comes to you, Lucrezia, and I just want to break down walls and climb in windows. D'you really think rats are incapable of love? Ooh, I am glad to see you, by the way.