“She still doesn’t understand.”
“You still don’t understand, do you? We can’t really make you say uncle unless you don’t want to say uncle. Don’t you see? Don’t say uncle when I tell you to say uncle. Okay? Say uncle.”
“Uncle,” she said.
“No, don’t say uncle. Say uncle.”
She didn’t say uncle.
“That’s good!”
“That’s very good.”
“It’s a start. Now say uncle.”
“Uncle,” she said.
“It’s no good.”
“No, it’s no good that way either. She just isn’t impressed with us. There’s just no fun making her say uncle when she doesn’t care whether we make her say uncle or not.”
“No, she really doesn’t care, does she? Say ‘foot.’”
“Foot.”
“You see? She doesn’t care about anything we do. She doesn’t care about us. We don’t mean a thing to you, do we?”
“Uncle,” she said.
She didn’t care about them a bit, and it upset them terribly.”