He even fought his press agent last week!" One night Joe suggested awkwardly: "Suppose we try Bill Nourse again.

Let me bring him home to dinner, I mean.

He isn't especially cheery, God knows--but he seems so damnably lonely this fall." "Very well, dear--if you want to," she sighed.

She had told Nourse to hint he was lonely.
When Nourse came to dinner that Saturday night, Joe was surprised and delighted at the way his partner seemed to get on now with his wife.
The visit indeed was such a success that it was not long before Joe proposed bringing home "an old pal of mine--fellow named Dwight." To this, too, Ethel assented, and when Dwight arrived one night she greeted him very graciously.
"I feel as though I knew you," she said.

"I've heard Joe talk of you so much." To Joe's delight they got on like old friends.