"Take this away from me," he tells Mike, after we have put off ordering a second time.

Tell me, Mike, what's your interest in this - scientific or personal?

Henry nodded, as if telling Mike there was no reason to thank him.

I came out to tell you Mike called and said your cab would be ready tomorrow.

I told Mike that we had moved out three years ago.

"What the hell are you trying to tell me, Mike?"

Susan told Mike she had an abortion and he threw her out the following year.

She goes on her way and does not tell Mike of their meeting.

"My father's on the way here to help make it work," he told Mike.

He'd told Mike that as a boy he had made a crystal wireless set.