Since I in all frankness prefer it to turn out comedy, let us make no error.

Are you weary of John?
Do you seek a new diversion ?" She looked at him, at first puzzled, then with a frown.

It leaped to her lips, grown impatient with suffering, to tell him all that she had evolved of the histories of himself, his lady and of Hesper; but there seemed to be an element of recklessness in that which threatened to do away with a means for her success.

He did not wait for her answer.
"And I," he said with mock intensity, "am done to death with weariness--with my moneyer, this lady of mine.

Let us be diverted while we live, for by the signs we shall all die soon." "Where," he began when her mind wandered entirely from him, "dost thou think the mysterious man hath taken my other wife?
"I would I knew," he continued, conducting his inquiry alone.