"Yes. That was one of the nicest things about us. We took each other for what we were, at the time, and asked no tiresome questions."
"Haven't you any curiosity about my past, Jane?"
"No. I married your present; I'm not concerned with anything else."
"That isn't a bit feminine."
"Then it must be masculine, so we agree on the stupidity of historic autobiography."
"I'm beginning to be interested in your past, Jane."
"Very masculine!" she retorted. "No use, Jerry; it's over and done with. I'm not even interested in it myself."
"Communicativeness is not a vice with you, I may say."
"That was why you married me, if you remember. You spoke of it specially the day of the wedding. I warned you then that 'the Man with the Dumb Wife' had a bad time of it, both while she was dumb and when she was not!"
"A reasonable amount of confidence between husband and wife is desirable, don't you think so?"