Effie has to block that video call. She can't let Katniss see her scarred-up face. She hasn't put her MAKEUP on.
She needs her MAKEUP to cover the SCAR on her face, because it will not do at all and she's late to the market and everything's going to wrack and ruin.
"Richard's socks are drying on the railing."
Apparently that was a way around the subject of WE WERE BOTH GONE FOR A WHILE and into the more comfortable realm of roommate complaints. It's easy to sound sour about Richard Sharpe. It's almost impossible to tell him or others how ashamed she feels about the debt she owes him. How much he has done for her.
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She needs her MAKEUP to cover the SCAR on her face, because it will not do at all and she's late to the market and everything's going to wrack and ruin.
"Richard's socks are drying on the railing."
Apparently that was a way around the subject of WE WERE BOTH GONE FOR A WHILE and into the more comfortable realm of roommate complaints. It's easy to sound sour about Richard Sharpe. It's almost impossible to tell him or others how ashamed she feels about the debt she owes him. How much he has done for her.