“How interesting! Tell me about it!”
“It would be more sensible of me to go and find your husband and tell him he may come back, that you are dying to see him, and that you have spent all but ninety cents.”
“Do you really think I am mean to send him away? Isn’t that a good idea of mine?”
“It is an excellent theory. I like it. But I hate to see either of you able to carry it out.”
“He isn’t able. He isn’t carrying it out. He is only doing what he is told.”
“You have begun well.”
“It is great fun—he never will obey so implicitly again.”
“I doubt that. The habit of obedience once formed is tenacious in husbands as in others.”
“I hope not. I should hate to have him stay so obedient. Don’t you think it nice of him to recognize my claims that on a bridal tour the bride must have her own way?”
“Yes,” I admitted. “I do, and not the less nice of him because letting you have your own way is so dangerous.”