Ah! My dear... [looks at stick figures of the children with their names on his hands] Violet. Enchanté.

Um... how do you do?

And this must be Klaus. [grabs at Klaus' face and looks at each side of it] Young Klaus. Your left side is the good one. [begins to mess with Klaus' bottom lip and then notices Sunny] And, uh...what is this?

[in baby talk, subtitled]

I'm Sunny.

I'm sorry. I don't speak monkey! [mimicking a baby] Banana?

[grunts, subtitled]

I'm not a monkey!

Sunny's our little sister.

I must say you are a gloomy looking bunch. Why so glum?

Our parents just died.

Ah, yes, of course. How very, very awful. Wait! Let's do that one more time! Bring me the line again! Quickly, while it's still fresh in my mind.

[confused]

Our parents just... died?

[overacting gasp]

Mr. Poe... I shall raise these orphans as if they were actually wanted.