Immediately, Laertes's gaze--previously fixed on Janet's eyes to avoid her other orbular parts--snaps to Janet's weapons. "What are those?" he asks. Where before his interest had the kind of guileless curiosity one might expect to accompany pure ignorance, at the mention of a weapon, his focus sharpens. He is, Janet may notice, wearing a rapier strapped somewhat incongruously over his well-fitted jeans.