They were entirely matter-of-course about it.
An elderly couple, it chanced, had been walking behind Bibbs and Mary for the last block or so, and passed ahead during the removal of the soot.

"There!" said the elderly wife.

"You're always wrong when you begin guessing about strangers.

Those two young people aren't honeymooners at all--they've been married for years.

A blind man could see that." "I wish I did know who threw that soot on you," said Bibbs, looking up at the neighboring chimneys, as they went on.