...Her room, Cosette hopes! Well, she'll ask a rat if she sees one.

She can hardly tell him to stay here and let her go on alone. So she rises, and takes his arm.

(It's hard to not just rest her head against his shoulder, no matter how upset she is at what he did. She may yet, in the privacy of the corridor, if no one's around.)

"I know I've thanked you so many times you must be sick of it," she says to Joly earnestly, "but I must say it again. Thank you for your help -- thank you, monsieur. You've been a true friend to all of us, and truly kind."