“You see how simple it is when the woman is still,” he said pointedly. “There is no fainting there; he loses no seventeen-mark umbrella from Baden-Baden.”
She ignored the gist of this remark, and began to unhook the collar of her jacket. Then she decided to take it off altogether.
“You find it too warm?” he said, rising to assist her.
“I certainly do.”
“It is curious for you and I to be in such a place, n’est-ce pas?”
“Very curious.”
“But it is an experience, like eating in the woods.”
“I don’t think that it is at all like eating in the woods; I think that nothing could be more different.”
“We are so alone.”
“Oh!”