"Do you often travel between here and home?" Strange asks, a rather hopeful look on his face to think that he might be able to simply pop in when he feels he wants to, rather than always have to struggle to maintain himself in one or the next. "Are you able to show others this place? I'd dearly love to show it to Norrell," he says, perhaps a bit smug as he wishes to show him such magic that does not live in books.