"Doesn't it depend on what you call romance ?" Her listener gave these arguments his very best attention.

"Of course you may call things anything you like--speak of them as one thing and mean quite another.

But why should it depend on anything?
Behind these words we use--the adventure, the novel, the drama, the romance, the situation, in short, as we most comprehensively say--behind them all stands the same sharp fact which they all in their different ways represent." "Precisely!" Mrs.Dyott was full of approval.
Maud however was full of vagueness.

"What great fact ?" "The fact of a relation.

The adventure's a relation; the relation's an adventure.