How should he?
I asked him what he thought of it, and imagine what he answered! You can't, though.

It's the funniest thing I ever heard.

He said it was a very clever satire.

Satire! Good Lord, I almost rolled off the seat.

It is funny, isn't it ?' Mallinson, with a wry face, agreed that the story was funny.
'I knew you would think so,' pursued the Captain relentlessly.
'Everybody does I have told it to, and that's everybody I know.