It amused him immensely, and at last he stirred and chuckled to himself.

He wished that he might enlist his wife's attention and read it to her.
"Ha, ha," he exclaimed softly, as if to himself, "that's funny." Mrs.Hurstwood kept on arranging her hair, not so much as deigning a glance.
He stirred again and went on to another subject.

At last he felt as if his good-humor must find some outlet.

Julia was probably still out of humor over that affair of this morning, but that could easily be straightened.

As a matter of fact, she was in the wrong, but he didn't care.