In a morning filled with brotherly love and jocularity over how everyone was getting along so well, no one wanted to offend.
She could see, under his jocularity, his pride and pleasure in her (as he considered) audacity.
Felix received all this with good humor, and replied only in a strain of jocularity to every thing she said.
Some years later he said that 'when Burke lets himself down to jocularity he is in the kennel.'
"Don't let it distress you," he said, with an attempt at jocularity.
To him I called with an assumption of jocularity I did not feel, "Stranger, where are you bound for?"