(1) The characters in "Rappaccini's Daughter" are much given to exclaiming "Perchance" or "Methinks", but the stagey vocalising, far from reducing the milieu into a poor pseudo-Scottian pastiche, actually gives them a strange floating temporality, halfway between myth and social reality.
(2) Whether perchance a couple of tentative man-hugs occurred, even an unabashed man-cry?
(3) Meanwhile Löw pops off to the loo, to fix his hair, or perchance a jobby.