“I’ll be fair to fair,” she said, cowed and scowling. “You’re married?”

“Yes,”

“A fine match?”

“Yes.”

“It would go hard with your honeymooning if I spoke out?”

“Harder with you, I think.”

“Ah, I’m salted, my man!”

“You’d need to be. Is she here?”

Isn’t she!”

“Where?”