[ Oh, Rex, but if you back off, then she knows — she knows, and she's like a shark sensing blood in the water. ]

Don't you? [ Wry as ever, her sly smile growing ever so slightly as she steps a little closer him, tilting her head as if to make a show of considering him. ] I guess you are new to having one. A wife, I mean.

[ She gives the poor man an appraising up-and-down glance. ]

You can mop up if you want. I don't mind watching you work.