I said: "Yet that’s a bad joke."

The gentleman said: "Not at all. If you want to hang yourself, first

you’ve got to get up on the window sill. And who will open the gas

jet for you if you want to poison yourself? You could only buy a

revolver secretly through a servant. But suppose the shot misses?

To drown yourself you’ve got to take an automobile and have yourself

carried down to the river on a stretcher by two attendants who have

to haul you to the far bank."

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