"Oh, you need an ocean for typhoons?"

"That is my understanding."

"Do you know why?"

"Might just be size? As far as I know the Mediterranean doesn't generate hurricanes or typhoons, so I don't think it can just be salt content. But I haven't studied this."

"Why not?" 

"Surely you've noticed that you are more interested in weather than most people are."

"You seem much better than most people, though."

"Thank you. However, it is in respects that do not affect my interest in the weather."

"I don't think that's true, most people would have told me to be quiet after I started discussing downdrafts, or left."

"I can find your interest in the weather entertaining without also having my own independent interest in the weather."

"Oh. I wonder if that's what Lucette is doing. For a while I just thought she was being very polite but then it turned out she actually was paying attention to what I said."

"When you are not around she displays no unusual interest in weather."

"Well, she still knows more than other people and gives me very nice weather books on my birthday each year and reads the weather books I give her on her birthdays."

"She's very fond of you."

"Yes, we're each other's closest friends."

"How'd you meet?"

"My parents brought me to a dinner at her grandfather's estate and Lucette didn't mind me and they were desperate enough for me to have a friend to make me more normal that they decided she was better than nothing, even if her mother married a commoner."

"Did you use to be less normal?"

"Well, I don't bite people for interrupting me when I'm cloud gazing anymore."