[ a dullness comes over them ] I told. Pascal. I am not right for people, I told him I... couldn't. Do this.

[ and they pick up something Pascal said to them, not that long ago, and they offer it back, shakily: ] You don't have to like me. I work hard, I am good at my job, but that doesn't mean any of you are meant to save me from my nature. It's my nature.