“It seems to me,” said Mrs. Lammle, “that you have had no money at all, ever since we have been married.”

“What seems to you,” said Mr. Lammle, “to have been the case, may possibly have been the case. It doesn’t matter.”

Was it the speciality of Mr. and Mrs. Lammle, or does it ever obtain with other loving couples? In these matrimonial dialogues they never addressed each other, but always some invisible presence that appeared to take a station about midway between them. Perhaps the skeleton in the cupboard comes out to be talked to, on such domestic occasions?