Four glasses is little enough, and when warmed by the flow of wine, my words run livelier still. Perhaps you'll discover as much when we meet without this distance.

Though we may meet sooner still. Much as it pains me to consider the possibility--I speak of pain at the need for action when inaction is preferred, at mankind's habit of clinging to survival--a visit to this center may become... [He shrugs.] If it must be, it must be, and who am I to defy man's basic instinct toward preservation of self?

I scoff and I defer, but your words have been appreciated, and to meet a man with an active mind is a fine circumstance.