"I haven't said that I did wish it. But I hate scenes, and I think it would have been pleasanter for us to have parted without any occasion for special words."
"Alice, you are such a fool!"
"So you tell me very often."

"I think it would have been pleasanter for us to have parted without any need for special words."
"Alice, you are such a fool!"
"So you tell me very often."
