“Give me half a chance, I got it on the cops, every time. You got to have something to tell, that’s it. You got to fill in all those places, and yet have it as near the truth as you can get it. I know them. I’ve tangled with them, plenty.”
“You fixed it. You’re always going to fix it for me, aren’t you, Frank?”
“You’re the only one ever meant anything to me.”
“I guess I really don’t want to be a hell cat.”
“You’re my baby.”
“That’s it, just your dumb baby. All right, Frank. I’ll listen to you, from now on. You be the brains, and I’ll work. I can work, Frank. And I work good. We’ll get along.”
“Sure we will.”
“Now shall we go to sleep?”
“You think you can sleep all right?”
“It’s the first time we ever slept together, Frank.”