“Easy to say that.”

“Have you told her?”

“Lord, no.”

“Well, go down and tell her and get it over, same as sea sickness.”

“Bud, I could no more tell her than I could walk into a blazing fiery furnace like those chaps in the Scriptures.”

“Why?”

“Because, Bud—well, there’s two reasons. First of all she’d laugh at me, maybe.”

“She would, sure.”

“And then—there’s a girl—”