and he loves to make out he s a little lamb but he s stubborn as a mule oh if you had to live with him � you d find out how sweet he is he just to be so he can have his own way and me i get the credit for being a terrible old but if i didn t blow up once in a while and get something started we d die of dry rot he never wants to go any place and � why last evening just because the car was out of order � and that was his fault too because he ought to have taken it to the service station and had the battery looked at � and he didn t want to go down to the on the but we went and then there was one of those impudent and paul wouldn t do a thing i was standing on the platform waiting for the people to let me into the car and this beast this conductor at me come on you move why i ve never had anybody speak to me that way in all my life i was so astonished i just turned to him and i thought there must be some mistake and so i said to him perfectly pleasant were you speaking to me and he went on and at me yes i was you re keeping the whole car from starting he said and then i saw he was one of these dirty ill bred that kindness is wasted on and so i stopped and looked right at him and i said i � beg � your � pardon i am not doing anything of the kind i said it s the people ahead of me who won t move up i said and let me tell you young man tbat you te a low foul i said and you re no gentleman i certainly intend to report you and well see i said whether a lady is to be insulted by drunken bum that chooses to put on a ragged uniform and thank you i said to keep your filthy abuse to yourself and then i waited for paul to show he was half a man and come to my and he just stood there and pretended he hadn t heard a word and so i said to him well i said � oh cut it cut it i paul groaned we all know i m a and re a tender bud and let s let it go at that let it go s face was wrinkled like the her voice was a dagger of brass she was full of the joy of and bad temper she was a and like every she in the opportunity to be vicious in the name of virtue let it go if people knew how many things i ve let go � oh quit being such a bully yes a fine figure you d cut if i didn t bully you you d lie till noon and play your fiddle till midnight you re bom lazy and you re born and you re bom cowardly paul � oh now don t say that you don t mean a word of it protested mrs i will say that and i mean every single last word of oh now the idea mrs was maternal and she was no older than but she seemed so � at first she was placid and and mature where at forty five was so and tight that you knew only that she was older than she looked the idea of talking to poor paul like that poor paul is right we d both be poor we d be in the if i didn t him up why now and i were just saying how hard been working all year and we were thinking it would be if the boys could run off by i ve been george to go iq to ahead of the rest of us and get the tired out of his system before we come and i it would be lovely if paul could manage to get away and join him at this exposure of his plot to escape paid was startled out of he his fingers hb hands you re you can let george go and not have to watch him fat old never at another woman hasn t got the i the hell i haven t i was fervently defending his when paul interrupted him � and paid looked dangerous he rose quickly he said gently to i suppose you in ly i have a lot of yes idol well then my dear since you ask for it � there h isn t a time in the last ten years when i haven t found some nice little girl to comfort me and as long as you continue your i shall probably continue to deceive you it hard you re so stupid she howled words could not be distinguished in her of abuse then the bland george f was transformed if paul was dangerous if was a snake locked fury if the neat emotions suitable to the arms had been into raw it was who was the most formidable he leaped up he seemed very large he seized s shoulder the of the were from his face and his voice was cruel i ve had enough of all this damn nonsense i i ve known you for twenty five years and i never knew you to miss a chance to take your disappointments out on paul you re not wicked you re worse you re a fool and let me tell you that is the finest boy god ever made every decent person is sick and tired of your taking advantage of being a woman and springing every mean you can think of who the hell are you that a person like paul 