`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.

I don't know yet, it's crazy ; ;

I don't want to leave it ''.

Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.

It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.

`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.

I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

We've been starving and I don't like to starve ''.

I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.

`` I don't know, Tom.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

`` I don't know, Mr. Brenner '', he said haltingly, beginning to get an inkling of Brenner's plans.

If I don't come back in the house, Breed's going to '' --

I don't know what you're up to, but when Brenner '' --

I didn't understand why, Clay.

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

I understand how you feel about the child.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

Fruit compote: `` If you think I would understand it '' ; ;

The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

as I understand it, Mr. Hammarskjold wanted outside advice.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

Anyone who has watched children develop a taste for literature will understand what I mean.

`` I understand [ Hearst ] is a candidate for Presidential honors '', Devery said without cracking a smile.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

I understand very well about Lauro Di Bosis and how his action is symbolic.

He said to the Secretary, `` I understand you came from a little Pennsylvania town near Wilkes-Barre.

`` Reverend '', he said, `` I think you don't quite understand the situation here.

I don't understand why a white hotel should be down here ''.

`` I understand ''.

`` I goddamn well understand ''.

`` I goddamn well understand.

`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.

Where I go, she goes -- and the kids with us.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

`` And I so want the part '', she said.

As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.

Seeming much relieved, she smiled one of those worth-waiting-for smiles, and I smiled all the way into the bedroom.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.

I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.

Why she married him I do not know.

I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.