"Of course they were. They would be ashamed not to. All good and wise people marry. Why, King Solomon, who was wiser than anybody, had seven hundred wives."
"How many?"
"Seven hundred."
"Seven hundred! Oh, get out!"
"But he did!"
"Seven hundred, all alive at once?"
"Yes."
"Jimminy! That seems an awful lot for one man, doesn't it?"
Ruth confessed that it did.
"Nobody in Longfields has more than one, have they?"