[ guilty as charged, but there's something exciting about the way she's playing along with his jests. the children, and the nuns, would have already been scandalized. but this? this is an important performance. and so, he outstretches a hand gesturing over the snow. ]

No one entirely knows. Ah, if we had a name, perhaps we could put her to rest.

[ he steals a glance at her ]

But some say she's the first person to have frozen here on the mountain, as she waited for someone who would never return.