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That's a weakness of our sex, dear. My, what a vindictive old Turk that Bush must have been! Well, you aren't working. Come and stay with me. Hubby's got a two-year contract with the World Advertising Company. We'll be located here that long at least. Come and stay with us. We'll show these little-minded folk a thing or two. Leave it to us." "Oh, no, I couldn't think of that, Kitty!"
He had steadied down for a while, too, until he took a sudden notion to slope and leave his interestin' fam'ly behind. "She's coming to ask if we've heard anything of him," goes on Marjorie. "I've a good notion to send her straight to Robert." "Say," says I, havin' one of my thought-flashes, "wait a minute. We might do I understand that the flitting hubby's name was Robert?" Marjorie nods.
She sat in a rocker amid a debris of candy-boxes and cheap magazines, and she sounded dolorous when she did not sound derisive. But Babbitt was exceedingly breezy: "Well, well, Zil, old dear, having a good loaf while hubby's away? That's the ideal I'll bet a hat Myra never got up till ten, while I was in Chicago.
'This, the account says, 'was kind of rough on the poor woman. The day before I 'scooted, a new machine appeared before the house, drawn by six horses. 'What are them men foolin' round with, Mr. C.? said I. 'That's hubby's latest, replied Ned. 'I guess it's the boss electro-dynamic fixin' in the universe.
And bidding a reluctant farewell to the small person in the crib, he crossed to her side. Zoie caught Alfred's hand and drew him down to her; he smiled complacently. "Well," he said in the patronising tone that Zoie always resented. "How is hubby's little girl?" "It's about time," pouted Zoie, "that you made a little fuss over me for a change." "My own!" murmured Alfred.
"I'm thinking of going on." "And meanwhile?" "Meanwhile whatever comes." Billy Howland's face was radiant. "I had a date tonight and the lady threw me down. One of those drummer's wives that take in washing to add to the family income while hubby's flirting round the country. This hubby came home unexpectedly. I'm glad he did." He beamed with such whole-souled good-nature that Susan laughed.
When it became hubby's duty to cook the meals and carry half of them to bed for his better half every morning before breakfast he began to taste silly and smell sort of henpeck like.
McCabe," says I, "how it's never too late to discover that, after all, old Hubby's the one best bet on the card." "Pooh!" says Sadie. "It isn't always safe to let him know it, even if you have." "And believe me, Shorty," goes on Mr. Hunk Burley, tappin' a stubby forefinger on my knee, and waggin' his choppin'-block head energetic, "when I get behind a proposition yuh goin' to get some action."
"Please say 'Report true. Mr. Barradine killed by fall from his horse yesterday. And sign it 'Mavis. No, sign it 'Mav." "Mav! Ma-v!" Mr. Ridgett looked round, smiling. "That's hubby's pet name for you, isn't it? Upon my word, you two are a pair of love-birds.... There, off it goes. Good night, Mrs. Dale. I'm truly sorry that you've been deprived of such a friend."
Sam'l Clark; and this hungry-looking squirt up here beside me is Dave Dyer, who keeps his drug store running by not filling your hubby's prescriptions right fact you might say he's the guy that put the 'shun' in 'prescription. So! Well, leave us take the bonny bride home. Say, doc, I'll sell you the Candersen place for three thousand plunks.