"One has heard it before--at least I have; one has heard your question put.

But always, when put to a mind not merely muddled, for an inevitable answer.

'Why don't you, CHER MONSIEUR, give us the drama of virtue ?' 'Because, CHERE MADAME, the high privilege of virtue is precisely to avoid drama.' The adventures of the honest lady?
The honest lady hasn't, can't possibly have, adventures." Mrs.Blessingbourne only met his eyes at first, smiling with some intensity.

"Doesn't it depend a little on what you call adventures ?" "My poor Maud," said Mrs.Dyott as if in compassion for sophistry so simple, "adventures are just adventures.

That's all you can make of them!" But her friend talked for their companion and as if without hearing.
"Doesn't it depend a good deal on what you call drama ?" Maud spoke as one who had already thought it out.