But you're broad-minded and cool-headed and--and--Do you know, if I'd had a woman like you to advise me all these years and keep me from goin' off the course, I might have been somebody by now." "I think you're somebody as it is." "Don't talk that way.

I own up I like to hear you, but I'm 'fraid it ain't true.

You say I amount to somethin'.

Well, what?
I come back home here, with some money in my pocket, thinkin' that was about all was necessary to make me a good deal of a feller.

The old Cy Whittaker place, I said to myself, was goin' to be a real Cy Whittaker place again.