“How good it is of you to be so altruistically grieved!”
“Why don’t you ask me why I am saying this to you?”
“Because I know, and because it is so much more amusing to have you say it unassisted.”
“Now, do you know that I should have expected to find you superior to a proclivity so purely feminine as that. To make him say things unassisted! From the dawn of time woman has delighted to do that.”
There was a haze of thought in her eyes. “I dare say you never have stopped to think that when he is assisted he says so much more than he means.”
“I thought you were going to say, ‘than he ought to.’”
“The greater includes the less. When he says a little that he doesn’t mean he says a great deal more than he ought to.”