Albert Bierstadt In the Mountains painting

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None of us know what we’re doing, any given moment.”
How you manage not to have religious faith, Hannah wanted to tell him, is beyond me. She held her tongue.
“A tale told by an idiot ... signifying nothing.”
“Signifying something,” Andrew said, “but we don’t know what.”
“Just as likely. Choice between rattlesnake and skunk.”
“Jay knows what; now,” Mary said.
“I certainly won’t swear he doesn’t,” her father said.
“He does, Mary,” her aunt said.
“Of course he does,” Mary said.
Child, you’d better believe it, her aunt thought, disturbed by the “of course.”
“I wonder,” Catherine said; everyone turned towards her. “Mary’s suggestion—for—an epitaph—is very lovely and appropriate, but I wonder, whether people will quite—understand it.”