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Rh Wobblies, eh? With goddam Wobblies. All right Looka Amy  Amy is wantin’ stay here nice an’ safe in dees fine house with Tony. Is not true, eh? [ nods through her tears.] Sure is true. Look Tony, Dio mio, an’ ask him w’at he want? Don’ he want baby?

But not this baby, Tony?

W’at I care?

But, think of what people would say!

W’at I care w’at evrabody say? We tellin’ evrabody he’s Tony’s baby. Den evrabody say Tony is so goddam young an’ strong he’s break both his leg’ an’ havin’ baby just da same! Ees good, eh? You don’t go with Joe now, Amy? Oh, Amy!

[He has swayed her, but she looks at him as at a madman.] No. It wouldn’t work, Tony. You wouldn’t mean it afterward. You’re crazy.