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[0510] always laugh at them?

[0511] Not so loud!

[0512] (without lowering her voice). [0513] Nothing is funnier than un-
happiness, I grant you. [0514] But -

[0515] (shocked). [0516] Oh!

[0517] Yes, yes, it's the most comic thing in the world. [0518] And we
laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. [0520] But it's
like the funny st^ory we have heard too often, we still
find it funny, but we don't laugh any more. [0521] (Pause.) [0522] ^{Have you} anything else to say to me?

[0523] No.

[0524] Are you sure? [0525] (Pause.) [0526] Then I'll leave you.

[0527] Do you not want your biscuit. [0528] (Pause.) [0529] I'll keep it for
you. [0530] (Pause.) [0531] I thought you were going to leave me.

[0532] I am going to leave you.

[0533] Can you give me a scratch before you go?

[0534] No. [0535] (Pause.) [0536] Where?

[0537] In the back.

[0538] No. [0539] (Pause.) [0540] Rub yourself against the rim.

[0541] It's lower down. [0542] In the hollow?

[0543] What hollow?

[0544] The hollow! [0545] (Pause.) [0546] ^Can you not? [0547] (Pause.) [0548] Y^esterday you
scratched me there.

[0549] (elegiac). [0550] Ah yesterday!

[0551] Can you not? [0552] (Pause.) [0553] Would you like me to scra^tch you?
[0554] (Pause.) [0555] Are you crying again?

[0556] I was trying.

[0559] Perhaps it's a little vein.

[0561] What was that he said?

[0562] Perhaps it's a little vein.

[0563] What does that mean? [0564] (Pause.) [0565] ^It means nothing. [0566] (Pause.)
[0567] Will I tell you the story of the tailor?

[0567|001] ^No. [0567|002] ^(Pause.) [0568] ^Why?