"Yes, Dutch."
"Write in French next time: then I can read it."
She laughed and gave her promise, poured him out a cup of tea, handed the chocolates. He nibbled at them:
"Are you so serious? Have you always been? You were not serious the other day."
"Sometimes I am very serious."
"So am I."
"I gathered that. If I had not come that time, you might have become very serious."
He gave a fatuous laugh and looked at her knowingly:
"You are a wonderful woman!" he said. "Very interesting and very clever. What you want to happen happens."
"Sometimes."