The other's deep-set eyes glinted. "Not even if it would enable you to get rid of your own wife in perfect safety?"
"No."
"It's a wonderful plan. So simple...."
Horning cut him off with a short, decisive gesture. "I don't want to hear it."
The man with Horning's face took one fast step forward. His head seemed to draw down between his shoulders. "And I say you're going to hear it, whether you want to or not!" he snapped harshly. He swung the gun in a threatening arc. "I don't intend to have gone through all of this for nothing."
Horning hooked his thumbs in his belt and met the other's cold eyes with all the bravado he could muster. He said nothing.
"I merely propose that we switch wives," his counterpart clipped.
"Switch wives—!" Shock startled the words from Horning.
"Could anything be simpler? Here are two women, completely identical. Both are stupid, both termagants in their own right. So, each falls asleep tonight in her own world. In the morning, she wakes up in another."