Nodelman will find me a pretty decent sort of
customer," I put in.
"You're all right," she said, demurely. "I'm afraid it won't be an
easy job to get a young lady to suit a customer like you."
"Try your best, will you?" I said.
"I certainly will."
She was less talkative now, and certainly less at her ease than she
had been before the topic was broached, which impressed me
rather favorably.
Altogether she was far from the virago or "witch" her
mother-in-law had described her to be. As to her attitude toward
her husband, I subsequently came to the conclusion that it was a
blend of affection and contempt.
Nodelman was henpecked, but not badly so
I called on them three or four times more during that spring.
Somehow the question of my marriage was never mentioned on
these occasions, and then Mrs. Nodelman and the children, all
except Maurice, went to the seashore for the summer
CHAPTER IV "YOU'LL examine the merchandise, and if you
don't like it nobody is going to make you buy it," said Nodelman
to me one day in January of the following winter.
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