Lemony Snicket, Man with a Beard but no Hair and others in “Unfinished Business”

Lemony Snicket

This advice was given to me by one of the bravest women I've ever known- a woman, who, at that very moment, was running for her life toward the edge of a cliff. Fortunately, like all women, my sister was an expert at doing the impossible.

Come, now. There's nowhere to run.

Woman with Hair but no Beard

Except off a cliff.

Which we plan to throw you off anyway.

Woman with Hair but no Beard

But perhaps this doesn't have to end in violence.

Give us the Sugar Bowl, and you can go.

Woman with Hair but no Beard

Cross our hearts.

And hope to die. What do you say, Snicket?

I'd rather jump off a cliff.

Should we follow her?

Woman with Hair but no Beard

We'll send the eagles; they're probably starving.

[patting her pregnant belly] Oh, you're a trooper, kiddo. I didn't have my first hang-gliding lesson 'till I was seven.