diff --git a/doc/fixes34.4 b/doc/fixes34.4
index ce887dd85..2e11e718b 100644
--- a/doc/fixes34.4
+++ b/doc/fixes34.4
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ pets capable of digging could pass through walls and stone on the Rogue level
 avoid inappropriate "the corridor disappears" when vault guard gets killed
 avoid inappropriate "the guard calms down" if vault guard's magic corridor
 	reaches a spot where gold is embedded in the rock
+avoid having vault guard ask hero's name when hero is swallowed
 adjust message for gas effect from chest trap if hero resists hallucination
 cancelling non-shop objects in a shop's entrance would upset the shopkeeper
 identified touchstone can rub on gold like the data.base entry says
diff --git a/src/vault.c b/src/vault.c
index 1084014d0..966c4439e 100644
--- a/src/vault.c
+++ b/src/vault.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	SCCS Id: @(#)vault.c	3.5	2006/06/11	*/
+/*	SCCS Id: @(#)vault.c	3.5	2007/08/30	*/
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
 
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ invault()
     int dummy;		/* hack to avoid schain botch */
 #endif
     struct monst *guard;
+    boolean gsensed;
     int trycount, vaultroom = (int)vault_occupied(u.urooms);
 
     if(!vaultroom) {
@@ -265,16 +266,25 @@ fnd:
 	EGD(guard)->warncnt = 0;
 
 	reset_faint();			/* if fainted - wake up */
-	if (canspotmon(guard))
+	gsensed = !canspotmon(guard);
+	if (!gsensed)
 	    pline("Suddenly one of the Vault's %s enters!",
 		  makeplural(g_monnam(guard)));
 	else
 	    pline("Someone else has entered the Vault.");
 	newsym(guard->mx,guard->my);
+	if (u.uswallow) {
+	    /* can't interrogate hero, don't interrogate engulfer */
+	    verbalize("What's going on here?");
+	    if (gsensed) pline_The("other presence vanishes.");
+	    mongone(guard);
+	    return;
+	}
 	if (youmonst.m_ap_type == M_AP_OBJECT || u.uundetected) {
 	    if (youmonst.m_ap_type == M_AP_OBJECT &&
 			youmonst.mappearance != GOLD_PIECE)
-	    	verbalize("Hey! Who left that %s in here?", mimic_obj_name(&youmonst));
+		verbalize("Hey! Who left that %s in here?",
+			  mimic_obj_name(&youmonst));
 	    /* You're mimicking some object or you're hidden. */
 	    pline("Puzzled, %s turns around and leaves.", mhe(guard));
 	    mongone(guard);
@@ -651,14 +661,13 @@ letknow:
 		    place_monster(grd, x, y);
 		    newsym(x, y);
 		}
-		if(!grd->mpeaceful) return(-1);
-		else {
-		    egrd->warncnt = 5;
-		    return(0);
-		}
+		if (!grd->mpeaceful) return -1;
+		egrd->warncnt = 5;
+		return 0;
 	}
 	if(um_dist(grd->mx, grd->my, 1) || egrd->gddone) {
-		if(!egrd->gddone && !rn2(10) && !Deaf)
+		if (!egrd->gddone && !rn2(10) && !Deaf && !u.uswallow &&
+			!(u.ustuck && !sticks(youmonst.data)))
 		    verbalize("Move along!");
 		restfakecorr(grd);
 		return(0);	/* didn't move */