“All through?” I asked.

“Hell, no!” she said belligerently. “I haven’t even started.”

“All right, I’ll call you back when you’re through. One doesn’t argue with a lady.”

I dropped the phone gently back on the hook, abruptly cutting off Bertha’s rage-shrilled voice.

Roberta’s eyes were big. I could see she was frightened.

“Donald, are you going to fight over me?”

“Probably.”

“Please don’t.”

“We have to fight over something.”

“What do you mean?”