Once in a while I'd have to go down town on some bus'nis in the evenin'.

She didn't seem to mind it at fust, but bom-by she got it into her head that the' wa'n't so much bus'nis goin' on as I made out, an' though along that time she'd set sometimes mebbe the hull evenin' without sayin' anythin' more 'n yes or no, an' putty often not that, yet if I went out there'd be a flare-up; an' as things went on the'd be spells fer a fortni't together when I couldn't any time of day git a word out of her hardly, unless it was to go fer me 'bout somethin' that mebbe I'd done an' mebbe I hadn't--it didn't make no diff'rence.

An' when them spells was on, what she didn't take out o' me she did out o' the house--diggin' an' scrubbin', takin' up carpits, layin' down carpits, shiftin' the furniture, eatin' one day in the kitchin an' another in the settin' room, an' sleepin' most anywhere.

She wa'n't real well after a while, an' the wuss she seemed to feel, the fiercer she was fer scrubbin' an' diggin' an' upsettin' things in gen'ral, an' bom-by she got so she couldn't keep a hired girl in the house more 'n a day or two at a time.
She either wouldn't have 'em, or they wouldn't stay, an' more 'n half the time we was without one.

This can't int'rist you much, can it ?" said Mr.Harum, turning to his companion.
"On the contrary," replied John, "it interests me very much.