"That we should part."
"But that depends on us, I suppose."
"Would that it did! But discord comes from without with the wind, with the dew, with too long-continued sunshine, with the rain. Try to explain which of us two was to blame for our last quarrel."
"Neither!"
"Neither of us two, then it was a third. Who is this third? In order to give it a name people call it 'misunderstanding'; but both of our understandings were completely clear, not disturbed at all."
"Don't frighten me."
"No, but be sure that the same event will happen again and that we shall blame each other as on the last occasion."
"Shall we not go and write now?" she broke in.
"I cannot write."
"Nor can I; my editor is angry because he has had no article from me for two months."