"And yet, if we hadn't, what difference would it have made?
Every one else would have been here.

Our absence would never have been noticed, and we should have sat at home and had the blues.

But all the same, life is cruel." "Can't say I find much to grumble at myself," Sir Charles said cheerfully.

"I'm frightfully sorry about poor old Dicky, of course, and every other decent fellow who doesn't get his show.

But, after all, it's no good being morbid.