"So you have come here for rest ?" he asked.
"So I may say.

I came for many of those reasons that are no reasons--don't you know ?--and yet that are really the best: to come away, to change, to break with everything.

When once one comes away one must arrive somewhere, and I asked myself why I should n't arrive here." "You certainly had time on the way!" said Acton, laughing.
Madame Munster looked at him again; and then, smiling: "And I have certainly had time, since I got here, to ask myself why I came.

However, I never ask myself idle questions.

Here I am, and it seems to me you ought only to thank me." "When you go away you will see the difficulties I shall put in your path." "You mean to put difficulties in my path ?" she asked, rearranging the rosebud in her corsage.
"The greatest of all--that of having been so agreeable"-- "That I shall be unable to depart?
Don't be too sure.