"I think so."
"Quite serious?"
Christine said:
"You see, there is a crisis. It is the war that in London has led to the discovery that men have desires. Of course, it will pass, but—"
"Oh, of course.... But it is grotesque, this crisis."
"It is perfectly grotesque," Christine agreed.
"You do not by hazard know where one can find flats to let? I hear speak of Bloomsbury and of Long Acre. But it seems to me that those quarters—"
"I am in London since now more than eighteen months," said Christine. "And as for all those things I know little. I have lived here in this flat all the time, and I go out so rarely—"
The Russian put in with eagerness:
"Oh, I also! I go out, so to speak, not at all."