“Yes, I hear what you say, sir.”
“Then why don’t you speak?”
“’Cause I haven’t nothing good to say.”
“Oh, Samson, there is no bad news?”
“No, sir; there’s no bad news at all.”
“Then what do you mean? What have you heard?”
“Don’t, don’t ask me, my lad.”
“But I do ask you, and I will know.”
“I only know what the men think, and of course that may mean nothing.”
“What do they think?”