But if they had, what could she do?
Surely she could hardly now follow them into a public cafe and demand that Seaver let her husband come home! But she could keep him at home, perhaps.

(Billy quite brightened at this thought.) Kate had said that she was so absorbed in Baby that her husband received no attention at all.

Billy did not believe this was true; but if it were true, she could at least rectify that mistake.

If it were attention that he wanted--he should want no more.

Poor Bertram! No wonder that he had sought distraction outside! When one had a horrid broken arm that would not let one do anything, what else could one do?
Just here Billy suddenly remembered the book, "A Talk to Young Wives." If she recollected rightly, there was a chapter that covered the very claim Kate had been making.