"Then let us take a taxi and drive round the Bois."
"Very well."
"You're not reformed at all. If you were, you would say, 'I've got to try on,' or, 'there are so many things I must do before lunch,' or 'I am only in Paris for such a short time.'"
"They're all true."
"Of course—that sort of thing is always true. The point is, is it relevant?"
"Talking of specialists. Do you still specialise in the irrelevant?"
"I have never understood what that word meant when applied to my activities. I have still kept my sense of proportion, if that is what you are driving at?"
"And Virginia?"
"Is still Virginia."
"And you love her?"