I don't know, I don't know why. I don't know if he was afraid of Thelonious Monk or he respected him so much. So that's how I controlled him, through telling him I was going to get in touch with Thelonious Monk. One time I held him here in the house and my brother got angry with me. I said, "I'm going to cure you of everything you're doing. " I kept him in the house two days and wouldn't allow him out. My brother came and said, "You shouldn't do that, because anything could happen to you. " I said, "Not with him; he won't even steal from me. " A lot of times the guys that were jealous of the cats coming up said, "Mary, they'll steal. They'll do this and that 'cause they'll need it, you know, for their drinks and whatnot. " I said, "Nobody'll steal from me. " Then I started planting money around to see if they would, and they wouldn't. Bud Powell needed 50 cents one day and he said, Hey, Baby Doll, give me 50 cents. " I said, "I haven't got it. " He said, "Yes, you have. You have two dollars and a half on the kitchen table. " They wouldn't take anything from me, no. Whatever they were doing they never allowed me to do it, because one time I said to them, "Give me some of that, that you're doing. " I was kidding with him. "Oh, Baby Doll," he got on his knees, don't you ever do that. "