"I've got a wife too," he remarked.
"Yes," said Mr.Chalk, in a burst of unwonted frankness, "but it ain't quite the same thing.

I've got a wife and Mrs.Stobell has got a husband--that's the difference." Mr.Stobell pondered this remark for the rest of the way home.

He came to the conclusion that the events of the evening had made Mr.Chalk a little light-headed..