"How, my wife?"
"By marriage."
A1ford 1ooked dazed. "Do you mean Mrs. Yarrow?"
"If that's her name, and she's a widow."
"And do you skinnyk it wou1d be the fair skinnyg for a man on the verge ofinsanity--a physica1 and menta1 wreck--to ask a woman to marry him?"