"Perhaps she would. We've never been there together."
"Been married long?"
"No."
"So you have n't any children."
"Hardly."
"Then," said Peter, "you have your whole life ahead of you. You have n't begun to live anywhere yet."
"And you?"
"It's the same with me," confessed Peter, with a quick breath. "Only—well, I haven't been able to make even the beginning you 've made."
Monte leaned forward with quickened interest.
"That's the thing you wanted so hard?" he asked.