Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Vintage Contemporaries)

How should a man act, given these circumstances? He understood things had been done. He did not understand what things now were to be done. The house was very quiet.

He remembered: deaths. Jimmy first.

“Well, that’s the way I am,” Edith said. “He’ll have to get used to it, that’s all. That’s the way I am.” “That’s the way she is,” the other woman said.

“Aren’t you going to load it, Papa?” the boy Benny asked from behind.

“He’s a salesman.