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"I don't carry tales," Dixie finally said, with a touch of embarrassment, "but I've a good mind to tell you exactly what she said, Alfred, so that you won't think it is worse than it really was. It wasn't such an awful thing, and she was laughing more at her own smartness than at you. She said she said you was the only man under the sun who had gone so far as to adopt a step-father-in-law.
I'm glad you didn't answer my second question, if that's the way you work things out. Who in the world would he marry!" "How would you like him for a step-father-in-law?" She looked at him with an amused smile. "Good gracious!" he exclaimed. "Why, I never thought of that! Your mother! Oh, by golly! that's great, that's great! Of course, of course.
Before they parted Eddie Ten Eyck extracted a solemn promise from his future step-father-in-law that he would ascertain Martha's exact weight and report the figure to him on the following day. "It will seem easier if I know just about what to expect," explained the young man.
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