Valjean is not responsive to this, not because he is incapable but because someone has told him he may take Cosette's hand, and it is all right, it is quite all right, it is allowed. He stretches his out to her, marvelling that it was only moments ago that he felt he would never lift his arm again, and how easy it seems now!

Scanners mean nothing to him, and he does not care what Joly does. He does not care if he dies, so long as she is here by his side when it happens.