don't be so stand-offish. you think old gideon is going to live to see this month out? herman, you will have to catch the next one 'cause i'm out of breath. i brought you these greens and some salt meat. you know gideon and i are lodge brothers and it has always been a policy to take care of the wives if something happens to our brother. if you become a widow, you will need someone around to fix the whatnots. we like for the widow to marry someone in the lodge. i know gideon ain't gone yet, but there will be a lot of his old friends coming around to get in line. i just want you to consider this as a kind of a conditional proposal, to be first in line so to speak. why did you buy so much toilet paper? these damn things are unloaded, ain't they? that's our friend harry. i wish it wasn't.