"They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they
justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to
them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter
thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in
Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic
unselfishness of an oyster. Do you like my new waistcoat? I'm
wearing it for the first time to-night."
"It looks like a great many others you've had lately, only worse.
New dinner waistcoats are becoming a habit with you."
"They say one always pays for the excesses of one's youth;
mercifully that isn't true about one's clothes. My mother is
thinking of getting married."
"Again!"
"It's the first time."
"Of course, you ought to know. I was under the impression that
she'd been married once or twice at least."
"Three times, to be mathematically exact. I meant that it was the
first time she'd thought about getting married; the other times
she did it without thinking. As a matter of fact, it's really I
who am doing the thinking for her in this case. You see, it's
quite two years since her last husband died."
"You evidently think that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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