REGRETS
Who Am I?
I am frequently most potent in the morning, but I am willing to abide with you at any time.
I am what you feel if you get married or if you do not get married.
I am what the after-dinner speaker says he feels because he came unprepared, and what the listeners show they feel without saying it.
I come to you when youth leaves you.
I am yours when that sarcastic person drops a remark which you cannot fittingly answer, and I am doubled when you are later alone and think of just the brilliant retort you should have given.
I am what overwhelms you when you suffer an overwhelming financial loss.
I am the vainest of the vain.
I am regret!
MRS. EXE—"Here's an invitation from Mrs. Boreleigh to one of her tiresome dinners. I hate them."
EXE—"Why not plead that you have a previous engagement?"
MRS. EXE—"That would be a lie. Edith dear, write Mrs. Boreleigh that we accept with pleasure."