"Have you quarreled ?" "Never, never, never!" Newman exclaimed.
"How happily you say that!" said Valentin.

"You are going to be happy--VA!" In answer to this stroke of irony, none the less powerful for being so unconscious, all poor Newman could do was to give a helpless and transparent stare.

Valentin continued to fix him with his own rather over-bright gaze, and presently he said, "But something is the matter with you.

I watched you just now; you haven't a bridegroom's face." "My dear fellow," said Newman, "how can I show YOU a bridegroom's face?
If you think I enjoy seeing you lie there and not being able to help you"-- "Why, you are just the man to be cheerful; don't forfeit your rights! I'm a proof of your wisdom.

When was a man ever gloomy when he could say, 'I told you so ?' You told me so, you know.