mother was then, and he's very bitter about his row with Georgie
Minafer. He says he'd rather burn his foot off than set it inside any
Amberson house or any place else where young Georgie is. Fact is, the
boy seemed to have so much feeling over it I had my doubts about
coming myself, but my wife said it was all nonsense; we mustn't
humour Fred in a grudge over such a little thing, and while she
despised that Georgie Minafer, herself, as much as any one else did,
she wasn't going to miss a big Amberson show just on account of a
boys' rumpus, and so on and so on; and so we came."

"Do people dislike young Minafer generally?"

"I don't know about 'generally.' I guess he gets plenty of toadying;
but there's certainly a lot of people that are glad to express their
opinions about him."

"What's the matter with him?"

"Too much Amberson, I suppose, for one thing. And for another, his
mother just fell down and worshipped him from the day he was born
That's what beats me! I don't have to tell you what Isabel Amberson
is, Eugene Morgan. She's got a touch of the Amberson high stuff about
her, but you can't get anybody that ever knew her to deny that she's
just about the finest woman in the world."

"No," said Eugene Morgan. "You can't get anybody to deny that."

"Then I can't see how she doesn't see the truth about that boy. He
thinks he's a little tin god on wheels--and honestly, it makes some
people weak and sick just to think about him! Yet that high-spirited,