[Likeable to people like you, maybe; but not to people like me.
She's too ashamed to say that. Instead:]
You sound like that Sharpe fellow, now. Please understand, in the Capitol, people aren't as accepting as they are here. They like manners; they like heroes they can understand. Their heroes need to be well-spoken and dramatic and have very white teeth. People HERE seem to accept nearly everyone without too many questions asked.
[Then she laughs. Effie Trinket so RARELY laughs -- oh, there are silly giggles and twittering expressions of jollity, but not laughs like this: underlaid with acid and regret.]
[action -- SIX O'CLOCK.]
She's too ashamed to say that. Instead:]
You sound like that Sharpe fellow, now. Please understand, in the Capitol, people aren't as accepting as they are here. They like manners; they like heroes they can understand. Their heroes need to be well-spoken and dramatic and have very white teeth. People HERE seem to accept nearly everyone without too many questions asked.
[Then she laughs. Effie Trinket so RARELY laughs -- oh, there are silly giggles and twittering expressions of jollity, but not laughs like this: underlaid with acid and regret.]
Unless, of course, you're different like I am.