"Me?"
"Yes... "
His face lit up again, transfigured.
"I have a passion for Greece, you know! I used to paint sets for a theater which put on Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides... and even Giraudoux... I... I kept some of the props when I left..."
I congratulated him coldly.
"And I thought that you might perhaps be interested in the odds and ends I got hold of..."
He pronounced "odds and ends" with great emotion.
"Listen... Another time, I've got other things..."
"Are you busy this evening? Your husband..."