"No, I thought of that. She is a democrat, her husband is a republican, and both of them are Baptists."
"Her husband? Is that child married?"
"She is not a child. She is married, and that is her husband who is there with her."
"Has she any children."
"Yes—seven and a half."
"That is impossible."
"No, she has them. She told me herself."
"Well, but seven and a HALF? How do you make out the half? Where does the half come in?"
"There is a child which she had by another husband—not this one but another one—so it is a stepchild, and they do not count in full measure."
"Another husband? Has she another husband?"