"Easily come about?"
"Herr Ehrenberg has had good luck, Herr Golowski bad luck.... Perhaps that is the only difference."
"Look here, now, Nürnberger," said Heinrich, "you're not going to deny that such a thing as individuality exists in the world.... Else and Therese are rather different characters you know."
"I think so too," observed Frau Ehrenberg.
Nürnberger shrugged his shoulders. "They are both young girls, quite gifted, quite pretty ... everything else is more or less of an accidental appanage, just as it is with most young women—most people, in fact."
Heinrich shook his head energetically. "No, no," he said, "life is really not as simple as all that."
"That doesn't make it simpler, my dear Heinrich."
Frau Ehrenberg turned her eyes towards the door and beamed.
Felician had just come in. With all the sureness of a sleep-walker he walked up to the hostess and kissed her hand. "I have just had the pleasure of meeting Herr Ehrenberg on the steps; he told me he was going off to Corfu. It must be awfully beautiful out there."
"You know Corfu?"