"Frankly, I'm not certain," said the scholar of genetics slowly. "I'd like more information if you'd be so good as to help."
"Of course we'll help!" exclaimed Mrs. Hanford. "What's bothering you?"
"How is your daughter getting on with Bertram Harrison?"
"Why, I'd guess they're getting along about as well as any other young pre-marriage couple. That's what the engagement period is for, isn't it? I mean, it's been that way historically."
"Yes, you're right," nodded Scholar Ross. "Did they rent the usual pre-marriage apartment?"
"Oh yes. They were quite the conventional young lovers, Scholar Ross."
The man from the Department of Domestic Tranquility smiled. "And you, of course, were the conventional parents of the affianced bride?"
"Of course. We were so pleased that we could hardly wait for Twelfth Night."
"And during that visit, were the appointments of the apartment proper?"
"Why, Scholar Ross!"