married.
You know where he goes all the time--"

"Oh, Lord, yes!" Sheridan turned over in the bed, his face to the wall,
leaving visible of himself only the thick grizzle of his hair. "You
better go back to sleep. He runs over there--every minute she'll let
him, I suppose. Go back to bed. There's nothin' in it."

"WHY ain't there?" she urged. "I know better--there is, too! You wait
and see. There's just one thing in the world that'll wake the sleepiest
young man alive up--yes, and make him JUMP up--and I don't care who he
is or how sound asleep it looks like he is. That's when he takes it
into his head to pick out some girl and settle down and have a home and
chuldern of his own. THEN, I guess, he'll go out after the money! You'll
see. I've known dozens o' cases, and so've you--moony, no-'count young
men, all notions and talk, goin' to be ministers, maybe or something;
and there's just this one thing takes it out of 'em and brings 'em right
down to business. Well, I never could make out just what it is
Bibbs wants to be, really; doesn't seem he wants to be a minister
exactly--he's so far-away you can't tell, and he never SAYS--but I know
this is goin' to get him right down to common sense. Now, I don't say
that Bibbs has got the idea in his head yet--'r else he wouldn't be
talkin' that fool-talk about nine dollars a week bein' good enough for
him to live on. But it's COMIN', papa, and he'll JUMP for whatever you
want to hand him out. He will! And I can tell you this much, too: he'll
want all the salary and stock he can get hold of, and he'll hustle to
keep gettin' more. That girl's the kind that a young husband just goes
crazy to give things to! She's pretty and fine-lookin', and things look
nice on her, and I guess she'd like to have 'em about as well as the
next. And I guess she isn't gettin' many these days, either, and she'll
be pretty ready for the change. I saw her with her sleeves rolled up at
the kitchen window the other day, and Jackson told me yesterday their
cook left two weeks ago, and they haven't tried to hire another one. He
says her and her mother been doin' the housework a good while, and now
they're doin' the cookin,' too. 'Course Bibbs wouldn't know that
unless she's told him, and I reckon she wouldn't; she's kind o'
stiffish-lookin', and Bibbs is too up in the clouds to notice anything
like that for himself. They've never asked him to a meal in the house,
but he wouldn't notice that, either--he's k