Oh, well! This is going better than he'd anticipated, so far. Marius smiles brightly and nods a little, toying with the bag to try and calm his nerves.
"I just wanted to tell you, sir, how very fond I am of Cosette. She's a wonderful young woman, you should be proud of her. I don't know what I would have done without her, when I was so ill.
Which -- I am sorry for, sir. That she was part of the lockdown. But she kept her mask on the entire time, and was very good about washing her hands."