"You are foolish. It will be easier to get his signature before we are married, than after."
"You suspicious woman! Men keep their word about money matters, Christina. Don't you know that?"
"No."
"Well, of course you don't. You know nothing about men."
"You are satisfied, are you?"
"I am perfectly satisfied."
"And sure?"
"And positively sure."
A week later she asked again, though in a joking manner, "if he had secured that signature?" and Robert answered in a tone of annoyance:
"Do not trouble yourself anent my money matters, Christina."