Sit down again, Puss, and I'll tell you all about it.
"You know for years I've looked forward to the time when you should grow up to be old enough to keep house for me.

And I thought then we'd go back North and settle down among my people and your mother's relatives.

I haven't been North since your mother died, but now I want to go, and I want you to spend the rest of your life there.

In many ways it will be better for you than Virginia.

You will have more advantages; your life will be broader and more varied.