"They certainly are nice people," I assented to my wife's observation,
using the colloquial phrase with a consciousness that it was anything
but "nice" English, "and I'll bet that their three children are better
brought up than most of____"
"_Two_ children," corrected my wife.
"Three, he told me."
"My dear, she said there were _two_."
"He said three."read the short story
Author:
Henry Cuyler Bunner