The two things conjoined to make the delay that in its consequences was so deplorable.
"Good-morning, sir," she hailed him pleasantly.

"It's close upon a month since last I saw you." "Twenty-one days to the hour," said he.

"I've counted them." "I vow I was beginning to believe you dead." "I have to thank you for the wreath." "The wreath ?" "To deck my grave," he explained.
"Must you ever be rallying ?" she wondered, and looked at him gravely, remembering that it was his rallying on the last occasion had driven her away in dudgeon.
"A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad," said he.

"Few realize it.

That is why there are so many madmen in the world." "You may laugh at yourself all you will, sir.