“Why do people want houses?” he countered.
“But—” she said.
“Yes?”
“You want a place to write in, Felix.”
“I shall write in the barn,” he said.
“Oh, is there to be a barn?”
“Don’t you think a barn would be nice?”
“I think a barn would be lovely. But then what is the house for?”
“I don’t know, exactly. You see, I’ve never had a house. But people seem to have found uses for them. I would settle down in mine and await developments. In the meantime, I could live in it. People do, don’t they?”
She laughed. “Yes. People do.... But won’t you be lonely in such a big house?”