[ Alayne answers the messages in sequence, responding to one first and then the other after a similar pause — whether the pause itself is genuine or affected isn't clear over the device. ]
CONTACT: alayne.stone@compass.net MESSAGE: Dear Mr. Gold, You must be a man of extraordinary patience. Perhaps with time I will learn a modicum of your virtue. But to be young means to think a year, a lifetime.
At your leave, I would be happy to make your Belle's acquaintance.
—Alayne Stone.
[ Then, a short while after: ]
CONTACT: alayne.stone@compass.net MESSAGE: Mr. Gold, So the two of you are of acquaintance.
your wish is my command n__n ;;
CONTACT: alayne.stone@compass.net
MESSAGE:
Dear Mr. Gold,
You must be a man of extraordinary patience.
Perhaps with time I will learn a modicum of your virtue.
But to be young means to think a year, a lifetime.
At your leave, I would be happy to make your Belle's acquaintance.
—Alayne Stone.
[ Then, a short while after: ]
CONTACT: alayne.stone@compass.net
MESSAGE:
Mr. Gold,
So the two of you are of acquaintance.
—Alayne.