Saturnin Page #3

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Ji!

I was absolutely desperate.

Sun is always the best medicine, Ji.

It's too dark in our flat and the spa's

too expensive. And Milou is so ill...

There's fresh air and sun on a boat.

He'll be right as rain here.

The more the merrier.

Two heads are better than one.

- Too many cooks spoil the broth.

- This is my man-servant, Saturnin.

I have already had the honour

to meet him.

- No smoking on board, boy.

- Who asked you?

I really did not want to offend you.

Your man-servant has

a bit strange manners, hasn't he?

I am afraid, my dear aunt, that

this boat is too small for four people.

As long as my dear husband was still alive

supplying the whole family with floor wax,

nobody dared to deny help to me.

However the wood was turning

black after applying the wax

and sorry for saying it straight,

the floor disgustingly stank.

Give a dog a bad name...

Anyway, it's a nice boat.

I'll mend the sail tomorrow.

This boat does not run

on a sail, but on a propeller.

Your boat hasn't got a sail,

my nephew?

We have to buy a sail for the pole!

Poles are used for putting out flags

during important ceremonies.

The thing, which sails lift onto,

is called a mast.

There is nothing on this boat, a sail could be

lifted on. This boat doesn't have a mast.

Oh my dear, that's true.

I'm tired, anyway. Let's go to bed.

Good night.

Milou!

Dr Vlach says that if we find

the idyll, we'll stop appreciating it.

Fate would be doing us a good turn

if it suddenly turned frosty.

Fate threw me out of my cabin.

I can only miss the frost out here.

Do I understand it well,

that you would feel relief,

if your aunt and Milou

decided to leave the boat?

It is night and

they're in their pajamas.

I can't imagine their departure

to occur without casualties.

It's half past ten.

By midnight your boat will be empty.

- Is that you, Milou?

- What?

I am very sorry to disturb you, but based on the experience

of previous nights, I've brought you some masks.

Is there a carnival going on, or what?

Not really. We've got rats here, who

enjoy scampering across faces of sleepers.

My recommendation is to put on

these masks during the whole night

to prevent direct contact with those animals.

You've got rats here?

I prefer rather not to talk about it,

but in fact you are absolutely right.

Milou!

I give it one minute,

two at most.

Some are wise, some are otherwise.

You just needed to say the word.

To finding Advent masks in July

was one of the most diffucult tasks

I have ever performed.

- What if she hadn't believed us?

- I would have gone to find some rats.

This would not be as difficult.

Life is wonderful!

- What's happening, Saturnin?

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