Don't let my meanness trouble you; it isn't worth trouble." I laughed.

"George," I said, "if I ever dreamed of such a thing as getting married myself, you would scare me out of it.

You ought to be a happy man, and act like one; instead you act as if you were about to be jailed." He caught his breath with a sort of gasp.

Then, after a pause and without looking up, he asked slowly: "Jailed?
What in the world made you say that, Ros ?" "I said it because you act as if you were bound for state's prison instead of the matrimonial altar.

George, what IS troubling you ?" "Troubling me?
Why--why, nothing special, of course.