“Nothin’.... Well, then, your falling for a kid like that, first crack out o’ the box. I’m honest; I don’t understand it.” 68
“She hit me that way—so help me God!”
“And you’re on the level?”
“Absolutely, Ben.”
“What about the old guy and the mother? Take ’em to live with you?”
“If she wants ’em.”
Stull stared at him in uneasy astonishment:
“All right, Eddie. Only don’t act foolish till Minna passes you up. And get out of here or you will. If you’re on the level, as you say you are, you’ve got to mark time for a good long while yet––”
“Why?”
“You don’t have to ask me that, do you?”