"Well, I don't know that I has any theory. You see, if they ain't married, where are they?"
"Exactly," Rufus said, with a smile; "that is a very pertinent question."
"And if they ain't married, I say they can't be together."
"That sounds probable, certainly."
"And if they ain't together, where's he?"
"Exactly; and where's she?"
"That's the very question I was going to ax myself, but you took the words out of my mouth as it were."
"I'm sorry I forestalled you, Mrs. Tuke, but——"
"Oh, you needn't apologise, Mr. Sterne, not a bit. This is a free country, and anybody is allowed to ax as many questions as he likes. But to come back to the point we was talking about, the question is, where's she, and where's the both of 'em?"