“All the better,” said the other. “Who would want to marry a woman’s man? I wouldn’t. Sheldon Corthell is that. I tell you one thing, Laura, and when you are as old as I am, you’ll know it’s true: the kind of a man that men like⁠—not women⁠—is the kind of a man that makes the best husband.”

Laura nodded her head.

“Yes,” she answered, listlessly, “I suppose that’s true.”