“Do you try to force them?” she asked.
“Perhaps,” he said. “Why should I want him to be free, if it isn’t his business?”
She paused for a time.
“We can’t make him happy, anyhow,” she said. “He’d have to be it of himself.”
“I know,” he said. “But we want other people with us, don’t we?”
“Why should we?” she asked.
“I don’t know,” he said uneasily. “One has a hankering after a sort of further fellowship.”
“But why?” she insisted. “Why should you hanker after other people? Why should you need them?”
This hit him right on the quick. His brows knitted.
“Does it end with just our two selves?” he asked, tense.