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Carol was on the back porch, tightening a bolt on the baby's go-cart, this Sunday afternoon. Through an open window of the Bogart house she heard a screeching, heard Mrs. Bogart's haggish voice:
". did too, and there's no use your denying it. no you don't, you march yourself right straight out of the house. never in my life heard of such. never had nobody talk to me like. walk in the ways of sin and nastiness. leave your clothes here, and heaven knows that's more than you deserve. any of your lip or I'll call the policeman."