Bertha said, “That wasn’t what I went for.”
“I know, I know. How about it? Do we make a deal or not?”
Bertha said, “I tell you I hardly mentioned it.”-
“I understand. Twenty-five per cent. Is it a deal?”
Bertha said irritably, “You don’t listen when I tell you in English. I guess I’ll have to learn Chinese and see if you understand that any better.”
“It’d be the same in any language,” he told her.
Bertha said, “I’ll take a gamble with you. I’ll pay you twenty-five dollars cash money for the information.”
He laughed at her.
“Well, that’s all there is to it,” Bertha said. “I’d be paying that out of my own pocket, because she hasn’t hired me to do anything with the insurance company. Anyway, she wouldn’t want to stick ’em on a settlement, just her doctor’s bill and compensation for the time she’s lost. She figures the total at twenty-five dollars.”
“That’s what she wants?”