[ Technically speaking, of course, she isn't that hot — she is, in fact, cooler than being cool; she's ice cold — pour one out for Augustine, who still doesn't actually know the details of the Tomb's arrangements, and therefore can't make the joke.
Instead, slowly, with mounting exasperation and disbelief: ]
«And so, quite reasonably, you politely asked why it was she was saying such terribly unkind things...»
[ He knows better; his thoughts don't even allow John to get one of his own thoughts in edgewise, much less "words out loud". ]
«No, of course you didn't. You went off like a nuclear explosion, because a child behaved in a childish fashion and you couldn't bear to be outdone, could you?»
[ (His tone would seem to indicate that this is not, in fact, a question that he's asking, here. Perhaps an exclamation mark would suit better.) ]
«Besides,» [ he adds after a moment like struggling to catch his breath, with a dulled and careworn attempt at his old facile levity, ] «everyone surely knows that kittens are more of an amuse-bouche than a breakfast, don't they?»
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Instead, slowly, with mounting exasperation and disbelief: ]
«And so, quite reasonably, you politely asked why it was she was saying such terribly unkind things...»
[ He knows better; his thoughts don't even allow John to get one of his own thoughts in edgewise, much less "words out loud". ]
«No, of course you didn't. You went off like a nuclear explosion, because a child behaved in a childish fashion and you couldn't bear to be outdone, could you?»
[ (His tone would seem to indicate that this is not, in fact, a question that he's asking, here. Perhaps an exclamation mark would suit better.) ]
«Besides,» [ he adds after a moment like struggling to catch his breath, with a dulled and careworn attempt at his old facile levity, ] «everyone surely knows that kittens are more of an amuse-bouche than a breakfast, don't they?»