Manuel, when asked how it is going by Gunn, replies Six, two and even. This comes from horse racing and a horse that was "six two and even" carried odds of 6-to-1 to Win, 2-to-1 to Place, and even money to Show. Six, two, and even. Many tracks will start the odds on horses close to these odds and can be interpreted that the horses close to those odds are not out of the ordinary. Eventually the phrase meant that all was well and A-OK and everything is close to normal.