"I'll pay them anything to try it," Walther broke in, enthusiastically. "Where would you try it—here in Uniport?"
"Hardly. But there's an old inn in North Wales where I once spent a vacation with some of our group. If the Happy Time agents should be watching us now, it would be quite natural to return to that inn."
"Maria ... do you think she would?"
Willy sighed, and shrugged.
"Not for the money alone ... she's quite a perfectionist about her art. But I'm hopeful that by this time...." His eyes twinkled.
Walther laughed.
"What a chess player you would make! I think you've been moving me around like a pawn ever since the first evening we met!"
"Not a pawn," Willy corrected him with a smile. "A knight."
However, they decided not to tell Maria the real purpose of the proposed vacation until they were all set up at the inn in North Wales. Walther thought the setting sounded perfect for some personal unfinished business.
"Even I could sing an aria in such a place," Willy enthused.