An' if
people like us don't go an' get somethin' they c'n fall back on, they got
to go beggin' in the end anyhow. You c'n kick against that all you want
to.
FIELITZ
It's a queer thing about you, mother. It's just like as if the devil
hisself got a hold o' you. First it just sort o' peeps up, an' God knows
where it comes from. Sometimes it's there an' sometimes it's gone. An'
then it'll come back again sudden like an' then it gets hold o' you an'
don't let you go no more. I've known some tough customers in my time,
mother, but when you gets took that way--then I tell you, you makes the
cold shivers run down my back.
MRS. FIELITZ
[_Has taken out her notebook again and become absorbed in it._] What did
you think about all this? We're insured here for seven thousand.
FIELITZ
What I thought? I didn't think nothin'.
MRS. FIELITZ
Well, there ain't any value to this place excep' what's in the lot
itself.
FIELITZ
[_Gets up and puts on his coat._] You just leave me alone, y'understand?
MRS. FIELITZ
Well, ain't it true? You just stop your foolin'. I seen that long ago,
before we was ever married. Schmarowski told me that ten times over, that
this here is the proper place for a big house.
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