Eponine remains withdrawn after the brief engagement. She doesn't like to look at the corrupted people or dwell on how they came to be so, lest it turn out there be no defense against that grisly fate. Instead she visits herself setting up a poorly constructed fire in the cottage's crumbling grate, and when she *finally* gets that lit and a canteen of water boiling, she starts to brew an amateurish tea for the party based on how she's observed the others doing it in the past. Is really not a good tea, but she offers it around any way.