But I didn't tell my wife.

I didn't want to disappoint her.

She had her heart set on a trip to the country hard enough as it was." "Why did you not call attention to the fact that Jackson was trying to save the machinery from being injured ?" I asked Peter Donnelly, one of the foremen who had testified at the trial.
He pondered a long time before replying.

Then he cast an anxious look about him and said: "Because I've a good wife an' three of the sweetest children ye ever laid eyes on, that's why." "I do not understand," I said.
"In other words, because it wouldn't a-ben healthy," he answered.
"You mean--" I began.
But he interrupted passionately.
"I mean what I said.

It's long years I've worked in the mills.