Eponine has a vague image in her head thanks to Mona - though she resents the condescension in her tone. She's imagining a cross between a wasp and a cockroach. And, without much knowledge about venom, she's not as worried as she possibly should be.

"It will be a quick way to die then. That is good. It is good to have a quick way."

But Parker's words worry her, definitely. A man eating scorpion? Suddenly, the creature she had imagined in her head, tiny, swells until it is as big as a large dog - or an elephant, like the statue at the Place de la Bastille.

"Do they? Madame Mona, you are a student. You know, don't you?"