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"Well," replied Tom, with a deprecatory look at his wife, "Angy don't take to pettin' very much.  She thinks it's a kind of foolishness for such middle-aged people as we're getting to be." "A husband can show his consideration without blarneying," remarked Mrs. Watterly coldly. "When a man takes on in that way, you may be sure he wants something extra to pay for it." After a little thought Holcroft said, "I guess it's a good way to pay for it between husband and wife." "Look here, Jim, since you're so well up on the matrimonial question, why in thunder don't you marry again?  That would settle all your difficulties," and Tom looked at his friend with a sort of wonder that he should hesitate to take this practical, sensible course. "It's very easy for you to say, 'Why don't you marry again?'  If you were in my place you'd see that there are things in the way of marrying for the sake of having a good butter maker and all that kind of thing." "Mr. Watterly wouldn't be long in comforting himself," remarked his wife.--"His advice to you makes the course he'd take mighty clear." "Now, Angy!" said Tom reproachfully. "Well," he added with a grin, "you're forewarned.  So you've only to take care of yourself and not give me a chance." "The trouble is," Holcroft resumed, "I don't see how an honest man is going to comfort himself unless it all comes about in some natural sort of way.  I suppose there are people who can marry over and over again, just as easy as they'd roll off a log.