Remember, too, that you have been living in altogether more spacious and distinguished surroundings—in more polished society than you were accustomed to at home.
[Looking at him.] Ah, so you think it is I that have changed?
Indeed I do, Maia.
I alone? Not the people here?
Oh yes, they too—a little, perhaps. And not at all in the direction of amiability. That I readily admit.
I should think you must admit it, indeed.
[Changing the subject.] Do you know how it affects me when I look at the life of the people around us here?
No. Tell me.
It makes me think of that night we spent in the train, when we were coming up here—
Why, you were sound asleep all the time.