'Evie laughed.
"Dear Aunt, have you been very honourable lately?" she asked, "or has Uncle Bob been doubting your first qualities?"
"Cynicism always ends in disappointment," remarked Lady Oxted, leaping a conversational chasm, "but since it is cynical, I suppose it expects it."
[...]
"I will never waste an ounce of resolution again in determining to abide by my word," she announced.
Evie laughed again, with a great ring of happiness in the note.
"Then you will confirm Uncle Bob in his cynicism," she replied, "and disappoint him of all his pleasant little disappointments."'
from The Luck of the Vails by EF Benson (Part III, Chapter VIII)
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