He thrust his hands into his pocket, and shifted his feet uneasily.
"You don't understand," he said.

"People don't do things here as they do where you come from." "I understand that, all right," with dry emphasis.

"I've been here long enough to understand that.

But maybe I don't understand _you_.

Heave ahead, and make it plain." "Well--well, then--I mean this: I don't know that Mal was after Caro's money, but--but he had a right to expect _some_.