Well, he'd like to see her face when he drove along the street in a big new Sussex.
She'd wish she had let him and Marie alone.

They would have made out all right if they had been let alone.

He ought to have taken Marie to some other town, where her mother couldn't nag at her every day about him.
Marie wasn't such a bad kid, if she were left alone.

They might have been happy-- He tried then to shake himself free of thoughts of her.

That was the trouble with him, he brooded morosely.