“Mebbe I ain't got much to say about him now—I dunno's I have anything to say, but—there's some things a man can't do, and——”
“What do you mean?”
“I dunno just what I mean—I know Bruce, and I've heard that he ain't doing the square thing.”
“I don't understand.”
“I hear he's hit you, and I just wanted you to know I ain't been your friend and his friend for nothing——” Hunch was talking fast and wildly, “and he's got to answer to me if he's doing anything like that.”
Mamie was on her feet now. Her eyes were flashing.
“Is this the way you talk about your friends? And a man who's been as kind to you as Bruce has?”
“Bruce——?”
“Why don't you come when he's here? Why don't you wait and talk to him?”
Hunch sat still, looking at her. He had nothing to say.