What was it about ?" She frowned down at him thoughtfully.

"I'm still furious about it--whatever it is.
Do you know, Mr.Man, that I am an outlaw amongst my neighbors, and that our happy little household, up there on the hill, is a house divided against itself?
I've put up a green burlap curtain on my southwest corner, and bought me a smelly oil stove and I pos-i-tively refuse to look at my neighbors or speak to them.

I'm going to get some lumber and board up that side of my house.
"Those three cats--they get together on the other side of my curtain and say the meanest things!" Andy Green had the temerity to laugh.

"That sounds good to me," he told her unsympathetically.

"Now maybe you'll come down and keep house for me and let that pinnacle go to thunder.