"I ain't thought about nothin'!" grumbles Jayne, which is . . . probably truer than he means.

"You want to know the truth - fact is, there was a time when I was younger'n'dumber'n I am now I thought I could handle the tight pants. They was all in with the ladies, dŏng ma? Fact is," he goes on, with sad and slightly sloshy dignity, "I was too much man for 'em an' it didn't work out, an' that, little Kaylee, is how I know."