​Joly nods. "Exactly right. Why you could take the time to learn another five languages here, you know, and if you left coffee on the table at home it would still be hot when you returned. Think of it as a sort of--retreat, that may be easiest. A holiday from the world and time both. It is a hotel, after all. A wonderful hotel; quite the healthiest and cleanest place, with everything you could need."

He smiles. "And speaking of that--" He pours them both a cup of hot coffee with milk from one of the thermoses; or in this case more like milk with coffee. "You both need something in your systems, you've had quite a day." Even and especially if they're both too worried about M. Fauchelevent to know it.

Joly adds a small dose of brandy to Marius' coffee--what anyone of his day would consider purely medicinal. Still, it is brandy, so he asks Cosette first before adding it to hers. "--Madame? Will you have a little to settle your nerves?"