Why--" He shut his teeth upon the impulse to confide to Mason his matrimonial mischance.
"These two won't.

My wife's the real goods, once you get to know her; a little fussy, maybe, over some things--most all women are.

But she's all right, you bet.

And Josephine's the proper stuff too.

A little abrupt, maybe--" "Abrupt!" Ford echoed, and laughed over the word.