"I won't lie. I swear. Not if you're listening to me."

She tightens her grip on 'Little Women', as if Martin is going to pull it back off her.

"And if I ain't in trouble." Eponine grins. "So what story do you want in payment? My life where it begins, or where it should end? Or them bits between? If you are to write my story though, Sir, perhaps we start at the beginning, before my parents lost the inn and to Paris we went?"