Figurines

“Well, this is the South Gate, love. What’s wrong? She not here? It’s nowhere near midday yet.”
“I know, but….”
“You’re sure it’s this South Gate, love?”
“There are others?”
The woman lists them: the gambling rooms, the tavern, a theatre, the South Gate to the palace, … The adventurer looks down at the small cloth with the little stick figures. He takes the figurine from his own pocket and gives it to her as a token of thanks. The woman stares at it, then cries with strange feeling:
“Oh dear! She looks all sad! She’ll be happier here with me. If I were you, love, I’d try the theatre. She sounds a bit dramatic, doesn’t she?”