Charles. And your wife?
Bobstay. Avast there! She’s Spanker’s wife.
Charles. But he basely deserted her.
Bobstay. So did I. Mysteriously disappeared.
Charles. But where have you been? What have you been doing all this time?
Bobstay. Pursuing the phantom ship, Sylvester Spanker.
Charles. Have you any trace of him?
Bobstay. Trace, my hearty? He’s made a clean run, blast his toplights!
Charles. Then she is yours now.
Bobstay. Is she? That’s a p’int for the sharks to argue. I didn’t marry his widow; I couldn’t marry his wife; and yet I’m a married man.