M. Gustave: "Serge X: missing. Deputy Kovacs: also missing. Madame D, dead. Boy with apple, stolen... by us. Dmitri and Jopling: ruthless, cold-blooded savages. Gustave H: at large. What else?"
Zero: "Zero: confused."
M. Gustave: "Zero: confused... indeed. The plot thickens, as they say. Why, by the way? Is it a soup metaphor?"
Zero: "I don't know."