The exchange expresses a desire to escape familiar surroundings and build a private life beyond the reach of other people. The destination itself is unimportant; what matters is being together somewhere anonymous. That indifference to place suggests that companionship, rather than geography, is being treated as the source of security and belonging.

In A Farewell to Arms, this wish takes on particular significance because Frederic and Catherine’s relationship develops amid war, military obligations and uncertainty. Their desire to go somewhere they know no one reflects an attempt to create a protected space outside those pressures. Yet the novel also shows the limits of such withdrawal: physical distance cannot make the wider dangers of war, circumstance and mortality disappear entirely. The passage therefore combines romantic intimacy with a wish for isolation, presenting private love as a refuge from public disorder while leaving open how secure that refuge can ever be.