she sobbed , `` i do n't know why this is happening to us , '' and crossing her face with her hands , moaned in distress , `` because i love that man so much like the time i asked him if he wanted me to cook and darn his socks and he said just darn them or if he wanted me to have children after forty and he said no forty kids would be plenty and he was so erudite about things like how some people drink coffee out of cups while others drink tea out of doors ... '' duz she ever stop fer breath ?