"I have wanted things you didn't give me."
"Of all the shameless hussies! Now, you answer straight. It'd take a month o' Sundays to tell you what I have given you, but you tell me what I've not given."
Susan answered with a promptitude indicating previous consideration of the question.
"Be fair, Joe! You've not given the child your confidence or your sympathy. You don't know what books she reads; you don't know anything about her except what's on the surface."
"Hark to this!"
"You heard her say just now, when we was behind the screen, that she didn't know whether you loved her. That's something a girl ought to know, isn't it?"
"Go it! Love her? Love my daughter? You know that I love her."
"As she said, this is going to be a test of that."
"See here, Susan! Are you on my side or on hers?"
"I'm trying to stand between you, Joe—trying hard to keep the peace, and—and to be just."