Farming is definitely not the life for Mandy."
"Well, if she was coming around here to try to hook up with you..." I trailed off, rolling one hand to imply the rest of my sentence.
"Yeah, I know," he said. "She doesn't want to be a farmer's wife, either. I'm sure her intent is to run me to ground first, and then get to work changing everything about my life to suit her needs. Her ex has my deepest sympathies."
"So why was she here just now?" I asked.
"Just to make trouble," he said, but then cut me off before I could ask that question a third time. "Her pretext was to ask me about Dofri. What I thought happened to him, if the police are involved, what you may or may not know."
"She brought up me?" I asked, surprised.
"No, I did when she wanted to know who was looking into things," he
