Your worry, mademoiselle, [not hissed,] will be the death of you. Everyone is asleep, who is going to be seeing me?

[Amused, Val enters the room and looks it over as he does. One's private quarters might say a great deal of one. And if there is little that might be said, after reviewing private quarters, that is telling in of itself.]

It was good of you to tell me of this snake, I am very interested.