Yes, I think so.
But why, pray? Perhaps because I'm not desperately in love with mooning about up here—?
Which of us was it that was absolutely bent on our coming north this summer?
I admit, it was I.
It was certainly not I, at any rate.
But good heavens, who could have dreamt that everything would have altered so terribly at home here? And in so short a time, too! Why, it is only just four years since I went away—
Since you were married, yes.
Married? What has that to do with the matter?
[Continuing.] —since you became the Frau Professor, and found yourself mistress of a charming home—I beg your pardon—a very handsome house, I ought to say. And a villa on the Lake of Taunitz, just at the point that has become most fashionable, too—. In fact it is all very handsome and distinguished, Maia, there's no denying that. And spacious too. We need not always be getting in each other's way—
[Lightly.] No, no, no—there's certainly no lack of house-room, and that sort of thing—