"My own dear mother, sensible as she is,
says she’ll marry again, forsake our house,
and look at me – laughing for all I’m worth,
giggling like some fool."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 21, lines 118-121. Telemachus is being ironic here. The usually serious prince is laughing, not because his mother says that she will remarry, but because he knows what is going to happen to the suitors.