To be followed with: "Important?
Oh I don't know.

That depends on how you look at it.

The only thing I have left to do is to kill myself.
I guess it won't take long." Kate met it with a sharp, involuntary cry.

For the sullen steadiness, dispassionateness, detachment with which it was said made it more real than it had been at the water's edge.
"But--but you see it's such a lovely day.

You know--you know it's such a beautiful place," was what the resourceful Miss Jones found herself stammering.
"Yes," agreed her companion, "pleasant weather, isn't it ?" She looked at Katie contemptuously.