“It’s a wonder she wouldn’t confine herself to making trouble for her own husbands without——”
“The trouble with you, Margaret, is that you’re too good to Jim, letting him run around with Dora and not doing anything yourself. If you had any sense you’d make him so jealous 159 he’d walk on his hands and hold a loaf of sugar on his nose for you.”
“Say, Fannie, why don’t you tell your friend Ned to cut in here and pay a little attention to Marge?”
“Oh, Ned’s no good.”
“Well, then, I’ll tell my husband to——”
“Don’t you do it! I started my husband once on a thing like that and he went at it so strong—Choose a bachelor.”
“That’s right. Ned’s not married. Let him do it.”
“Somebody ought to.”
“Say, Fannie, call Ned on the ’phone.”
“All right. I’ll be back in a minute.”