"Take it easy.  Nobody is trying to make you get married, I promise you - why, I haven't even painted my shotgun white.  While I am not snoopy and I never hold a bed check around here and I really do, so help me by all the Billion Names of God, believe in not poking my nose into other people's business, nevertheless while I may be out of my mind - a 'least hypothesis' more than once, the last couple of years - I do have normal eyesight and hearing... and if a brass band parades through my home, fortissimo, I'll notice it eventually.  Question:  You've slept under this roof dozens of times.  Did you, on at least one of those nights, sleep alone?"