For, being my guests, it is not polite for you to insult my husband." "Your husband!" the tin twins exclaimed in dismay.
"Yes," said she.

"I married Chopfyt a long time ago, because my other two sweethearts had deserted me." This reproof embarrassed both Nick Chopper and Captain Fyter.

They looked down, shamefaced, for a moment, and then the Tin Woodman explained in an earnest voice: "I rusted." "So did I," said the Tin Soldier.
"I could not know that, of course," asserted Nimmie Amee.

"All I knew was that neither of you came to marry me, as you had promised to do.
But men are not scarce in the Land of Oz.

After I came here to live, I met Mr.Chopfyt, and he was the more interesting because he reminded me strongly of both of you, as you were before you became tin.