"I'll tend to you in a minute or two.

YOU don't count for much.

This thing is mostly between me and my wife." When he talks so decided I thinks mebby that perfessor has got something into him besides science after all.

Jane, she looks kind o' surprised herself.

But she says nothing, except: "What are you going to do, Frederick ?" And she laughs one of them mean kind of laughs, and looks at Henry like she wanted him to spunk up a little more, and says: "What CAN you do, Frederick ?" Frederick, he says, not excited a bit: "There's quite a number of things I COULD do that would look bad when they got into the newspapers.