I've knowed it right along, but kept holdin' it back.
"Dade had me sized up right.

He said I was a false alarm; that I'd been thinkin' of myself too much; that I'd forgot that there was other people in the world.

He was right; I'd forgot that other people had feelings.

But if he hadn't told me that them was your views I'd have salivated him.

But I couldn't blame him for repeatin' things you'd said, because about that time I'd begun to do some thinkin' myself.
"In the first place, I found that I wasn't a whole lot proud of myself for guzzlin' your grandad, but I'd made a mistake an' I wasn't goin' to give you a chance to crow over me.