"Existence, you know, all the same, doesn't depend on that.

I mean," she smiled, "on having caught a husband." "Oh--existence!" the Prince vaguely commented.

"You think I ought to argue for more than mere existence ?" she asked.

"I don't see why MY existence--even reduced as much as you like to being merely mine--should be so impossible.

There are things, of sorts, I should be able to have--things I should be able to be.