Alice.
Not quite so corpulent as you, spouse.
Knickerbocker.
Spouse! Mr. Knickerbocker, if you please. Truly, wife, we have both increased somewhat in corporal, as well as temporal substance, since Gustaffe went to sea. But you know, Alice—
Alice.
Mrs. Knickerbocker, if you please.
Knickerbocker.
Well, Mrs. Knickerbocker—
Gustaffe.
Why, Knickerbocker, you have thriven well of late.