Toad Triumphant
““We shall not let this matter delay our trip, Mole, old fellow, so please don’t look so miserable, for it upsets me,” said he, before adding a trifle grudgingly as he guided the boat to the landing-stage by Toad’s boat-house, “I suppose any one of us might have made the same mistake.”
The Mole accepted this olive branch gratefully and without further comment.
“I am not quite sure I understand why Badger is so upset,” the Mole dared venture after due thought. “I mean to say is matrimony ...really so terrible a thing? Might not Toad benefit from having to think of another, once in a while?”
“Now, Mole, be careful what you say” rejoined the Rat. “These are deep and difficult matters, about which neither of us knows nearly enough. You lightly mention, for example, ‘having to think of another once in a while’. From the grim warnings I myself have received in the past I can assure you that matrimony involves thinking of another a good deal more than that, and the effort would certainly cause Toad trouble and stress and lead him to do something silly We all know how much he dislikes gaol, do we not?”MoreLess
The Mole accepted this olive branch gratefully and without further comment.
“I am not quite sure I understand why Badger is so upset,” the Mole dared venture after due thought. “I mean to say is matrimony ...really so terrible a thing? Might not Toad benefit from having to think of another, once in a while?”
“Now, Mole, be careful what you say” rejoined the Rat. “These are deep and difficult matters, about which neither of us knows nearly enough. You lightly mention, for example, ‘having to think of another once in a while’. From the grim warnings I myself have received in the past I can assure you that matrimony involves thinking of another a good deal more than that, and the effort would certainly cause Toad trouble and stress and lead him to do something silly We all know how much he dislikes gaol, do we not?”MoreLess
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