June 2009 - Literature

MNova
Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:58:22 +0000

these are Joseph’s replies

“Joseph: “I don’t understand your hard words;
but I am certain you have no occasion to call me ungrateful, for, so far
from intending you any wrong, I have always loved you as well as if you
had been my own mother.””

“Madam,” says
Joseph, “I am sure I have always valued the honour you did me by your
conversation, for I know you are a woman of learning.”

I just don’t sense any humor in his reactions… he’s genuinely trying to defuse the situation