"And since I came home I--" "Oh, I ain't reproachin' you, Bibbs," she said.

"Jim ain't been home much of an evening since you got back--what with his work and callin' and goin' to the theater and places, and often not even at the house for dinner.

Right the evening before he got hurt he had his dinner at some miser'ble rest'rant down by the Pump Works, he was so set on overseein' the night work and gettin' everything finished up right to the minute he told papa he would.

I reckon you might 'a' put in more time with Jim if there'd been more opportunity, Bibbs.

I expect you feel almost as if you scarcely really knew him right well." "I suppose I really didn't, mother.