"Only thing I'm try'n'a find out, what does it push against behind?"
"I'm beginning to think it's no use try'n'a explain it to you."
"Tom!"
"Hell, like a poisoner always does! You want to bet? Happened a million times. I read a book—"
"Tom!"
"Yeah? You better not have any more, June."
"Don't want any more—not why I called you. Just wanted say, 'm sorry 'f anything I said gave 'fense. None 'tended. All's I want's everybody be happy."
But the defense—
"Sure, June, that's okay."
"'S my whole life right 'ere, see? Ask anybody knows me."