"One should never turn down the opportunity to travel when one is young and free. I did in my youth, and have always regretted it." He smiles, and looks back to his son. "I am glad you both are enjoying yourselves."
"Ah." Léon said, as if this information explained everything. "No doubt none of it good?" He said, "It is my fault, of course. I was not in the most pleasant of moods on the day Jacques arrived, and I know now I was too short tempered with him. After his journey, I suppose he was not in need of a bad-tempered old man telling him how to behave." He shrugged, "No young people enjoy that, do they, Citizeness?"