"Still, there it is. So you and Pongo need not have split up at all."
"No."
"It was silly of him to take your breaking the engagement so seriously. My dear wife broke ours six times, and each time I came up smiling."
"I ought to have remembered that Pongo does take things seriously."
"Yes. A saintly character, but muttonheaded."
(from Uncle Dynamite, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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