You know that by temper we are rabid idealists, both of us.' 'I suppose so.' 'But let me go on.

I want, among other things, to insist upon the fateful power of trivial incidents.

No one has yet dared to do this seriously.

It has often been done in farce, and that's why farcical writing so often makes one melancholy.

You know my stock instances of the kind of thing I mean.