Oh... [he laughs at that, but it's a nervous laughter.] I suppose you're right. I would've, wouldn't I?

[And it isn't until Franz says that, that Albert realises himself just how much he's changed. And that thought fills him with dread in the pit of his stomach. After all, he'd spent the last couple of months trying desperately not to change, to hold onto the person he once was... after all, wasn't that why he'd thrown himself into everything with gusto? Why he spent every waking moment here in the company of other people, for fear of being left with his own thoughts that quickly turned angry and sad?

Albert doesn't want to think about that.]

Well-- I've got to shape up eventually, otherwise Eugénie will elope with some stupid American guy, haha!