Yes.

[Looks at him.] Are there nurseries in that house, too?

Three, as there are here.

And no child.

And there never will be one.

[With a half-smile.] Well, isn't it just as I said—?

That—?

That you are a little—a little mad after all.

Was that what you were thinking of?

Yes, of all the empty nurseries I slept in.