"Yes, my dear, I have known a good many things so exactly like it as to be identically the same," responded our old friend Tom.
"What a—what a—moon-calf he must be, Tom," the lady went on.
"Rather tough to digest, Kate," returned the husband, drily.
"But they do say there's no fool like an old fool," continued Mrs. Grigson.
"My dear!" remonstrated Tom.
"To think that he should ever think of doing such a thing!" said the lady. "'Tis dreadful!" she added.
"Is it so dreadful, Kate?" asked the gentleman, looking up. "That's a new light cast on the subject," he added.
"Nonsense, Tom! You know what I mean. Of course it isn't always dreadful, nor yet dreadful in itself; but, as you say sometimes, 'circumstances alter cases.'"
"Alters, you should say, Kate, to give the proper roll to the aphorism."
"That isn't grammar, Tom."