Then perhaps you ought to try to see things differently on occasion. And I don't mean as a way of being silly, but to give an honest go at it.

[This, she punctuates with a great wheeze of a blown nose into the handkerchief. She folds the cloth over again after, at last reducing it to such a small size that its benefits at a means to wipe her face are rendered somewhat negligible. She sniffs. She uses both it and the back of her hand in an attempt to dry her puffy eyes.]