Can't you go and talk to them ?" There was impatience again in her eyes.

He saw it and smiled wearily.
"You think I'm mighty weak," he said, "with not much fight left in me.
You're right, I guess.

But you don't know what I've been through in the last seven years.

I stuck to Joe--and they didn't like that.

Sally said I had knuckled down to Joe's wife.