'I hope you'll have all you're thinkin' you're havin', an' more too, but less if you'd like it.
Farewell.' An' away they goes.
"Well, you may be sure, I stood there amazed enough, an' mad too when I heard her talk about my bein' all I was a-thinkin' I was.

I was sure my husband--scarce two weeks old, a husband--had told all.

It was too bad.
I wished I had jus' said I was the Earl-ess of Random an' brassed it out.
"I rushed back an' foun' him smokin' a pipe on a back porch.

I charged him with his perfidy, but he vowed so earnest that he had not told these people of our fancies, or ever had spoke to 'em, that I had to believe him.
"'I expec',' says he, 'that they're jus' makin'-believe--as we are.
There aint no patent on make-believes.' "This didn't satisfy me, an' as he seemed to be so careless about it I walked away, an' left him to his pipe.

I determined to go take a walk along some of the country roads an' think this thing over for myself.
I went aroun' to the front gate, where the woman of the house was a-standin' talkin' to somebody, an' I jus' bowed to her, for I didn't feel like sayin' anything, an' walked past her.
"'Hello!' said she, jumpin' in front of me an' shuttin' the gate.
'You can't go out here.