I have not been systematically enough taught for that. Most of what I know I have found out for myself.
But you succeeded all the same.
Yes, thanks to the fire. I laid out almost the whole of the garden in villa lots; and there I was able to build after my own heart. So I came to the front with a rush.
[Looks keenly at him.] You must surely be a very happy man, as matters stand with you.
[Gloomily.] Happy? Do you say that, too—like all the rest of them?
Yes, I should say you must be. If you could only cease thing about the two little children—
[Slowly.] The two little children—they are not so easy to forget, Hilda.
[Somewhat uncertainly.] Do you still feel their loss so much—after all these years?
[Looks fixedly at her, without replying.] A happy man you said—
Well, now, are you not happy—in other respects?