“I meant that she’d be anxious about me.”
“She can’t be as fond of you as all that,” said the doctor. “Nobody could.”
“She’s very fond of me. We’re only quite lately married.”
“Have you a wife too?” said the doctor to Mr. Sanders.
“Yes. I have a wife and an aunt. They’re both with me in Ireland.”
“Do you suppose that your wife is as fond of you as Mrs. Dick is of her husband?”
“I don’t know. How could I know that?”
“The reason I ask the question,” said Dr. O’Grady, “is this. There’s a girl I’m engaged to be married to, a Miss Adeline Maud Blow, who is probably scouring the country in pursuit of me this minute. Patsy Devlin has a wife who may be out looking for him.”
“The minute she’d find out I was gone,” said Patsy, “she’d be up at the barrack telling the police, the way she’d have me brought back to her.”