He was laughing, so she heard, when he met his death.

So would she, in honour of him, go on laughing till she met hers.
"And that silly little fool, Phyllis, is still crying her eyes out over Randall," she said.

"Don't I think she was wrong in sending him away?
If she had married him she might have influenced him, made him get a commission in the army.

I've threatened to beat her if she talks such nonsense.

Why can't people take a line and stick to it ?" "This isn't a world of Bettys, my dear," said I.
"Rubbish! The outrageous Mrs.Tufton's doing it." Apparently she was.