"That a boy should leave his old father like that!" "Wasn't you always kickin' to me, pa, that there wasn't a future in the business after the transaction came--wasn't you?" "No more arguments you get with me!" "What chance, Julius, I ask you, has a goil like Poil got out here in Newton? To sit on the front porch nights with Meena Schlossman don't get her nowheres; to go to the moving--pictures with Eddie Goldstone, what can't make salt for hisself, ain't nothing for a goil that hopes to do well for herself. If she only looks out of the corner of her eye at Mike Donnely three fits right away you take!" "_Gott_, that's what we need yet!" "See, even when I mention it, look at him, Poil, how red he gets! But should she sit and sit?" "_Ach_, such talk makes me sick. Plenty girls outside the city gets better husbands as in it. Na, na, mamma, did you find me in the city?" "_Ach_, Julius, stop foolin'. When I got you for a husband enough trouble I found for myself." "In my business like it goes down every day, Becky, I ain't got the right to make a move." "See, the poor mouth again! Just so soon as we begin to talk about things. A man that can afford only last March to take out a new five-thousand-dollar life-insurance policy--" "'Sh-h-h-h, Becky." "For why shouldn't your children know it? Yes, up-stairs in my little green box along with my cameo ear-rings and gold watch-chain I got it put away, children. A new life-insurance policy on light-blue paper, with a red seal I put only last week. When a man that never had any insurance before takes it out so easy he can afford it." "Not--not because I could afford it I took it, Becky, but with business low I squeeze myself a little to look ahead." "Only since we got the new store you got so tight. Now you got more you don't let it go so easy. A two-story brick with plate-glass fronts now, and always a long face." "A long face! You should be worried like I with big expenses and big stock and little business. Why you think I take out a policy so late at such a terrible premium? Why? So when I'm gone you got something besides debts!" "Just such a poor mouth you had, Julius, when we wanted on the second story." "I ask you, Becky: one thing that you and the children ever wanted ain't I found a way to get it for you? I ask you?" "Ya, but a woman that was always economical like me you didn't need to refuse. Never for myself I asked for things." "_Ach_, ma and pa, don't begin that on the one night a week I'm home." "So economical all my life I been. Till Izzy was ashamed to go to school in 'em I made him pants out of yours. You been a good husband, but I been just as good a wife, and don't you forget it!" "Na, na, old lady; don't get excited again. But right here at my table, even while I hate you should have to know it, Becky, in front of your children I say it, I--I'm all mortgaged up, even on this house I'm--"