And I'll show you a different partner." He looked at her.
"Well, that's too simple, too," he said.
"Why is it ?" she demanded.
"Because in those first years of his marriage I went to them so often, in just the way you're thinking of.

I got some of the men he used to know to come to his office and take him to lunch.

And it did so little good they quit.

They all got sick of it--and they're through." Ethel leaned forward intensely: "But it will be different now! Before, they had Amy here working against them! I'm here now, and I'll be on their side!" He frowned, and she cried impatiently, "You don't believe me, do you! You don't believe I can do anything--or even that I want to!" He looked at her for a moment.
"Yes," he said, "I almost do." "Then please give me a chance," she said, very low.

And by her eager questions she began to draw out of Nourse the information she wanted.
It did not come easy, for the past seemed buried deep in his memory.