Yes, sir, he'd just do that little thing, and lay low and see what Marie did about that.
Keep her guessing--that was the play to make.
Unfortunately for his domestic happiness, Bud failed to take into account two very important factors in the quarrel.

The first and most important one was Marie's mother, who, having been a widow for fifteen years and therefore having acquired a habit of managing affairs that even remotely concerned her, assumed that Marie's affairs must be managed also.

The other factor was Marie's craving to be coaxed back to smiles by the man who drove her to tears.

Marie wanted Bud to come and say he was sorry, and had been a brute and so forth.

She wanted to hear him tell how empty the house had seemed when he returned and found her gone.