Crooks says this after suggesting to Candy and Lennie in
chapter 4 that they should leave his room. At this point, he had just been verbally
wounded by Curley's wife when he tried to get her to leave. She wouldn't leave and he
said he would tell the boss not to let her in his place anymore. She threatened him, and
he then backed down with several "Yes ma'am"s.
When Crooks
makes the comment in your question, he was trying to have control over something in his
life, and was hoping that at least these two acquaintences would respect his wishes to
be alone. After all, the rest of the men were coming home from the bar and Crooks didn't
want them to think anything was going on between the three of them for fear that the
other men would do something to him.
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