The only thing queerer is women.

What d'ye suppose a sensible middle-aged man like Doctor Coombe ever saw in that pretty doll?
And what did she see in him--old enough to be her father?
A queer match, I call it.

But they do say that her side of it is easy explained.

Anyway it must have been a trying thing when the doctor's gold mine didn't--" Mrs.Sykes' flow of words ceased abruptly, for rising from a last descent upon the rose bush she saw that her audience had vanished.
"Dear me! I hope he didn't think I was trying to be curious," said Mrs.
Sykes..