“What were you talking to all those women about?”
“It was about the 'Sunday Baseball Bill.'”
“Ah! The bill you attacked in your speech, last Wednesday?”
“Yes ma'am.”
“I hear you haven't made any speeches since then,” she said indifferently.
“No ma'am,” he answered gently. “I kind of got the idea that I'd better lay low for a while at first, and get in some quiet hard work.”
“I understand. You are a man of intensely reserved nature.”
“With men,” said Alonzo, “I am. With ladies I am not so much so. I think a good woman ought to be told—”
“But you are interested,” she interrupted, “in defeating that bill?”
“Yes ma'am,” he returned. “It is an iniquitous measure.”