Explain the following quotes: George: “All the time he [Lennie] done bad things but he never done one of ‘em mean.”

“Now Candy spoke his greatest fear. “You an’ me can get that little place, can’t we, George?” ... George said softly, “—I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would.”