The Men Women Marry

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His wife said, “Your attitude is unnatural.” Walter Tyler knew how unanswerable that statement can be. Perhaps at this same breakfast moment, countless husbands were groping for a meaningful retort. But there was none. Obviously, wives wanted natural husbands. Nice, neat, natural husbands, each one with a windup key in the small of his prefabricated back.

He said helplessly, “I just don’t like him.”

“You have to face facts. Kath is serious about him and he is serious about her, and she very probably will become Mrs. Carl Paine. He’s a sweet, polite, intelligent, ambitious young man. Did you like that musician better?”

“Lord, no!” he said fervently.

“You have an emotional block,” she said. “It’s a natural paternal reluctance to lose your only daughter. So you tell yourself you don’t like him. Exactly what don’t you like about him?”

“I’ve told you before, dear. He’s just — too darn’ plausible. Too perfect. He hangs on my every word. He calls me ‘sir.’ He keeps hopping up to do this and that. He’s got salesman manners.”

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