Throughout the viewing, Bagoas admires the lived-in clutter and colour and homeliness. It all speaks to him of Glitch, as well it should, and warms his heart for it despite the dark cloud hanging about his friend.

"Yes," he says, when they gather things to bring outside (he insists on taking at least the tablecloth and napkins aside from his basket). "As adjusted as one gets, away from home."

He suspects that has something to do with the dullness lingering in Glitch's beautiful eyes, and so, he prods in his own circumventive way.

"I have resumed all my acquired habits, however. I walk a lot, being constantly distracted by pretty things... I think I'd quite forgotten how good it feels to be clean."