But she won't, and I can't.

And there we are.

I lose my nerve every time I try to speak to her.

Now, I say this to you, man to man, you know, and no one the wiser; I can talk to anybody else about this, to anybody but just Nory.

Now, you've been goin' down to this here Halfway House a-plenty for a long time, and I don't know as you seem much furder along 'an I am.