Melady comes home and is livid: It had to cover the whole way home barefootedly because the shoes which Richie has bought for it have got broken; through this, of course her feet got strongly dirty of the street dirt; The dirty feet of the street dirt with the tongue clean leaky and as a punishment for this impudence Richie must for it. And he must meanwhile still all the time of it put up with verbal humiliations and insults.