"You are married.  You just don't know it yet.  After tonight there will never again be any doubt in your mind about it." Duke again looked faraway, happily pensive. "Ben, I was married before... and for a short time it was pretty nice and then it was steady hell on wheels.  This time I like it, all the time.  Shucks, I love it!  And look, Ben, I don't mean just that it's fun to be shacked up with a bunch of bouncy babes.  I love them - all my brothers, both sexes.  Take Patty - and you will! - Patty mothers all of us... and I don't think anybody, man or woman, gets over needing that, even if they think they've outgrown it.  Patty... well, Patty is just swell!  She reminds me of Jubal... and that old bastard had better get down here and get the word!  My point is that it is not just that Patty is female.  Oh, I'm not running down tail-"