"What?"
"Nothing. I was thinking.... Then I begin to hope that she and all of us will feel alike.... And, strangely enough, I see that in everything. We all want it. If she comes back, I am almost sure that we shall all ... do a great deal ... to make her ours...."
"And to make her happy...."
"If she comes back.... How delightful it would be, if she came back ... with the children."
"Delightful?"
"I mean ... yes, I mean delightful.... Lives that have once been interlaced...."
"Are bad to pull apart. I agree.... And Hans?"
"Oh, even he ... even he will try!"
"Who knows? Perhaps one day it'll be like that."
"For the present, there's nothing to be said."