But I guess I can manage it somehow--" A muscle began to twitch on his face.

He re-lit his pipe with elaborate care and looked over at Roger confidingly: "Do you know what's the matter with kids these days?
It's the twentieth century," he said.

"It's a disease.

It starts in their teeth.

No modern girl can get married unless she has had her teeth straightened for years.
Our dentist's bill, this year alone, was over eight hundred dollars.