"Somebody, then."
"You said once that if your husband couldn't nobody could."
"Yes, yes, I know," she answered cheerfully. "But you—you are out of it now."
"Huh!" he grumbled. "It's not because I don't think I could if I wanted to."
"No, you could not, Ward. Nobody can."
"But you just said you thought somebody would some day."
"Did I? Oh, suppose you really should one of these days!"
"And suppose I never came back?"
"Nonsense! Of course you would come back. They all do nowadays."
"De Long didn't."