It's too funny," she went on before he again spoke, "that Mrs.Rance should be here at all.

But if you talk of the life we lead, much of it is, altogether, I'm bound to say, too funny.

The thing is," Maggie developed under this impression, "that I don't think we lead, as regards other people, any life at all.

We don't at any rate, it seems to me, lead half the life we might.

And so it seems, I think, to Amerigo.