"No, I hadn't one of any kind."
"Oh, yes, I can tell by your voice; you speak in a sharp, bitter, irritated way. Tell me why you are so bad-tempered all in a minute?" she asked, in a coaxing tone, leaning against him, and looking up into his face.
He stepped back from her as he answered:
"When one is not very good to start with, and one has trouble, it makes one go to the bad; it is inevitable!"
"And you have trouble?"
"Yes."
"Is it very bad?"
"Well, quite bad enough, thank you!"
"Poor Jean; things don't go as you want them to, then?"
"What do you mean? What are you talking about?"