‘Do you come in, my lord?’
‘The house is yours, my lady.’
‘I cannot feel it mine.’
‘You are the mistress to invite or exclude.’
‘I am ready to go in a few hours for a small income of money, for my child and me.’
‘—Our child.’
‘Yes.’
‘It is our child.’
‘It is.’
‘Any sum you choose to name. But where would you live?’