Is he at home?
He is not.
Then turning to go, the young man added:
Thank you, I shall call again. But the girl was equal to the occasion.
Pardon me, said she, in the same cool tone, but whom shall I say called?
You have a model husband, said the lady who was congratulating the bride.
The next day the bride bethought her to look up the word “model” in the dictionary, and this is what she found: MODEL—A small imitation of the real thing.