IN THE MATTER OF ART
75
They pledged themselves in the clasp of a handshake. He put on his cap and went out.
On his way down the path he heard her take up again the song which his arrival had interrupted:
"Now you 're married, you must obey;
You must he careful of all you say;
You must he kind, you must he good—
And help your husband split the wood."
"That 's acting," he said. "That 's acting."