"Oh, that's all right. So you supposed her single?"
"I assure you I do."
"Well, at any rate she got even with you. She told me of the pitcher of water she threw on you out of the window. How did it feel?"
"Very wet," responded Palmer with a faint smile.
"Good joke!" said Churchill, laughing boisterously. "I wish I had been there."
Somehow Palmer did not enjoy having the scene which had been so harrowing to him recalled. Yet this man must be propitiated.
"I was there," he said with a feeble attempt at a joke.
"So you were, so you were. When Alameda told me about it I nearly laughed myself to death."
Palmer began to recover from his alarm. Evidently the injured husband was not disposed to take things seriously, for he seemed in a good humor.