"If he thinks it more economical, they certainly will," declared Miss Myrtle Deibert.
"Whew!" exclaimed Mr. Bleichert. "Good-night!"
"Who would have supposed any nice girl would have married old Danny Leitzel!" marvelled Mr. Schaeffer.
"Oh, come now," protested Mr. Bleichert who was a cynic, "why have all the girls, from the buds just out, up to the bargain-counter maidens in their fourth 'season,' been inviting Danny Leitzel to everything going, and running after him heels over head, ever since he built his ugly, expensive brick house on Main Street? Tell me that, will you?"
It should be stated here that it was an accepted social custom in New Munich for the people at one card table to discuss the clothes, manners, and morals of those at the next table.
"You know perfectly well," retorted Miss Deibert, "that at least two girls in this town, when it came to the point of marrying Danny, chucked it."
"I should think they might," said Schaeffer. "Why, he isn't a man, he's a weasel, a rat, a money-slot!"
"Well, of course, the girl or old maid, 'bird or devil,' that has caught him at last, isn't marrying him for himself, but for his money," serenely affirmed Myrtle Deibert.
"When she meets his two appendages, Miss Jennie and Miss Sadie, she'll wish she was single again!" predicted Mr. Bleichert.
"They'll probably think it their business to manage Danny's wife the way they manage him," Miss Deibert declared.