Mione takes the plate off the footboard in front of the collector and puts it in her pocket, and there is no name on the bed for the first time since 1904.
MioneHe was collecting for sixty-seven years off a debt that was paid. If he wants hours he can buy them like anybody else, at the market rate, from a volunteer.
CorvinaAnd if he does?
MioneThen I will put the plate back and he can find out what happens when somebody sleeps in his bed and knows exactly what he is.
The debt is struck out in December. Nobody sleeps in the west room for the rest of the winter, and the plate stays in Mione's desk drawer.