"Ruth, I am not joking, I really want to know."
"Maybe Golter would like to know how many times I have been with you."
"I have a good reason for asking. It's to your interest to answer me seriously."
"Well, if I must be serious and confess to my father confessor, it was five times."
"Have you since coming to Wilford Springs ever gone with anybody else?"
"No other young man."
"That's what I mean. Girls don't count."
"Oh, thank you for the information that girls don't count," she said with a tone of injured pride.
"Then Golter is the only man you have kept company with in Wilford Springs besides myself and you were with him only five times?"
"Yes, that is true, but why do you ask?"