This scenario does raise the interesting question of just what on earth the Starklings are going to make of each other when/if they meet up again.

The time had come, Dundee acknowledged, to decide if he was serious about making a run for the roses. It was only mid-1990, but presidential campaigns had evolved into two-year affairs, and if he really had that famous fire in his belly, now was the time.

Yet once again, exclaimed he, passionately, let me gaze on that beautiful and beloved face! let me see if sorrow has cast a shadow on its surpassing loveliness! I will not let her know how near I am, and how wretched! No, in secret and in silence will I look upon her once more; and then, farewell for ever!

The house has a southern aspect, i.e. a position which faces the south.