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[imchongjun]

Hello, teachers.
I have a question about the meaning of the last sentence of the following passage: "the remark might have been more fortunate".

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Herbert Robinson believed that while there were so-called sensitives who actually went into trance, the controls which took possession of them were buried personalities of their own, released during trance from the sub-conscious mind.

"If not," he said truculently, "if they are really spirits, why can't they tell us what is going on, not in some vague place where they are always happy, but here and now, in the next house? I don't ask for prophecy, but for some evidence of their knowledge. Are the Germans getting ready to fight England? Is Horace here the gay dog some of us suspect?"

As I am the Horace in question, I must explain that Herbert was merely being facetious. My life is a most orderly and decorous one. But my wife, unfortunately, lacks a sense of humor, and I felt that the remark might have been more fortunate.
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I think the narrator says something like "he should have been more considerate when he made a joke", but I am not sure of the exact meaning of the sentence. I appreciate your comments and suggestions. Thank you!!

[asterix]

I think it means that Herbert Robinson, in making his little joke, has got Horace into trouble with his wife, because she, "lacks a sense of humour".