"Well, I'd have though it more likely he'd just have a shot the General. If he shot the General and the wife came along, then he'd have had to shoot her, too. You read things like that in books."
"Yes," said Mrs. Oliver thoughtfully, "one does read all sorts of things in books."
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"You enjoy life altogether, don't you?"
"Yes, I do. I suppose it's the feeling that one never knows what might be going to happen next.
"Yet that feeling," said Mrs. Rosentelle, "is just what makes so many people never stop worrying!"
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