"Auntie Sue just naturally loves everybody.

Hit wouldn't be no more'n nature, though, for you-all ter hate me.

I sure have been poison-mean." "But that is all past now, Judy," said Betty Jo, heartily.

"Come and sit down ?" She started toward the chairs.
But the mountain girl did not move, except to shake her head in refusal of the hospitable invitation.
"I ain't a-goin' ter put my foot inside this house, nor set with you-all, nor nothin' 'til I've said what I done come ter say." Betty Jo turned back to her again: "What is it, Judy ?" "Auntie Sue done told me not ter let you-all er Mr.Burns see me 'til she come back.

But I can't help hit, an' if I don't talk 'bout that none, I reckon she ain't a-goin' ter mind so much.