And the funeral expenses must not worry them.

Afterward--well, plans for the future could be discussed at another time.

But upon Dennis and Annie he tried to impress a sense of their responsibility.
"It's up to you, Boy," he said to the former.

"Annie's job's sure, I guess, as long as she wants it, and she can give her mother somethin' every month.

But you're the man of the house now, and you've got to steer the ship and keep it afloat.