"My dear Mother Hubbard," he said, "that's the very thing! I have thought of that several times and have been quite angry with myself for meaning to be so much in earnest and--somehow--not exactly being so. 
"My dear Mother Hubbard," he said, "I have indeed thought of that several times and have been quite angry with myself for meaning to be so much in earnest and - somehow - not exactly being so. 