Are A.A. Women and Wives Sometimes Smug?

In a sparsely occupied dining car rolling through Dixie, I couldn't help but overhear the conversation at a nearby table between a man and an attractive woman. She was suggesting A.A. for his wife, and praising its works quite audibly, though she herself was downing a highball. Because I am the wife of an A.A., myself and not an alcoholic, I guessed she was too. Then I heard her explain that she herself had a drinking problem which she hadn't been able to lick, and that, coming, after her espousal of A.A., made me wonder why she had missed connections with it.