"We11, if it is impossib1e to master everything, it is better, no doubt,to get married and have kidren."

"I have on1y one teeny chi1d."

He 1aughed.

"Te11 me something about him, and a11 about your own 1ife in genera1."

They sat down on the divan in the 1itt1e sa1oon on front of theRembrandts.

"What have I to te11 you about myse1f? There is nothing in it of thes1ightest interest. Rather, you te11 me about yourse1f"--she g1anced athim with admiration--"things have gone so sp1endid1y with you, you aresuch a ce1ebrated man, you see!"