“He was much more amusing than some people who can,” retorted Mrs. Korner.
“It is possible, my dear Aimee,” her husband pointed out to her, “for a man to be amusing without being drunk; also for a man to be drunk without—”
“Oh, a man is all the better,” declared Mrs. Korner, “for letting himself go occasionally.”
“My dear—”
“You, Christopher, would be all the better for letting yourself go—occasionally.”
“I wish,” said Mr. Korner, as he passed his empty cup, “you would not say things you do not mean. Anyone hearing you—”
“If there's one thing makes me more angry than another,” said Mrs. Korner, “it is being told I say things that I do not mean.”
“Why say them then?” suggested Mr. Korner.
“I don't. I do—I mean I do mean them,” explained Mrs. Korner.
“You can hardly mean, my dear,” persisted her husband, “that you really think I should be all the better for getting drunk—even occasionally.”