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THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED

Joe

[In amazement]: Where did you get it?

Amy

Where do you think I got it?

Joe

Good God, Tony didn’t send you this, did he? For God’s sake, tell me! Did Tony send you this?

Amy

Ain’t I just told you?

Joe

By God, he must have been plumb crazy! By God, he was so dead gone on you he was afraid you wouldn’t have nothin’ to do with an old man like him. . . . He didn’t have the nerve. . . . An’ he just went an’ sent you my photo instead of his. . . . Tony’s like that, Amy. He ain’t nothing but a kid. He’s like a puppy, Tony is. Honest, Amy, it’s God’s truth I’m telling you. . . . I wouldn’t have had nothin’ to do with no such thing. Honest I wouldn’t. I did write the letters for him, but that was only because he don’t write good English like I do.

Amy

That ain’t no excuse.