"Hardly too philosophical, I don't think. You're reflecting," she decides the word is a better one than his. "After all, it must have been very different, after all this time. In English, as well."

Which was nice in its way, her latin not exactly up to snuff. "I think that my Granny would be horrified that I even stepped over the threshold, but I don't mind. It was fitting, I think, for the night."