"For what?"
"Want of thought."
"Being a person who never thinks, how could you?" was what her tone implied.
"Oh, I dare say I feel it as much as other people," he said. "In a world like this, it seems to me that the happiest people are the people who don't think."
"How happy some people must be!" murmured she, gazing at the rippling water and speaking as though she were taking it into cynical confidence.
"Thanks," said Mr. Dashwood.
"I beg your pardon?"
"I only said 'Thanks.'"
"What for?"
"Your remark."