What was the tone at breakfast the morning after the family receives the monkey's paw?

The tone at the breakfast table was light..... everyone joked about the paw and their initial reaction to its supposed powers.

There was an air of prosaic wholesomeness about the room which it had lacked on the previous night, and the dirty, shriveled little paw was pitched on the side-board with a carelessness which betokened no great belief in its virtues.