Whose Ears Are Those?
- Despereaux freezes and goes silent when the cook looks around, and eventually she just goes back to cooking her soup.
- As Despereaux tries to shore up his courage, he smells the soup and is amazed. It's truly the best thing he's ever smelled in his life.
- He's utterly terrified when the cook spots him and realizes that there's a mouse in her kitchen. To his surprise, though, she's glad to see him because she was afraid that one of the king's men had come in to arrest her for making soup.
- She just laughs at him—especially when she spots his missing tail—and tells him to go do his thing. In return, she asks that he won't tell on her about the illegal soup.