Writers Muses: Translate

The two sat together in box seats, situated for a perfect view of the stage spread out below them. Better still, they were the only ones in the box which allowed them to hold hands without causing a scandal. Refraining from public displays of affection was clearly difficult for them both but where they were and what they experienced compensated for that. Currently they were in an opera house listening to Idomeneo.

( It would have been fantastic enough to hear it in an ordinary opera houses )