Savage Underneath

"You always were a lord of manor, weren't you? A swell guy, except when the chips were

down. You always were a savage underneath. I always knew that only I never admitted it.

But in the last few weeks...i admitted a hell of a lot to myself. No about you. Don't flatter

yourself. I wasn't thinking about you. Why the hell should I think about you? Did you ever

think about me? I thought about myself, and ma, and the old man, and pleasing them all the

time. Well, never mind about that now. It's you we happen to be talking about now. Like a

savage underneath...like that time you knocked Finny out of the tree...Like the time you

crippled him for life...always were a savage underneath."