“Ah! You’re adventurous! I like that in a person. Your mother was adventurous, too. You know, she and I were very good friends a ways back. We hiked up Mount Fraught with some friends—gosh, it must have been twenty years ago. Mount Fraught was known for having dangerous animals on it, but your mother wasn’t afraid. But then, swooping out of the sky—”
— Jerome Squalor, remembering moments with the Baudelaires’ mother. He later also states that she loved auctions, but is cut off before he can recall more moments.
