all-to-the-good

Updated: June 8, 2025

Black her eye for love's sake, if you will; but it is all-to-the-good business to do a thing when she wants you to do it. "Turn off the hydrant," said the Kid, one night when Molly, tearful, besought him to amend his ways. "I'm going to cut out the gang. You for mine, and the simple life on the side. I'll tell you, Moll I'll get work; and in a year we'll get married. I'll do it for you.

O. Henry - The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million