Martha wouldn't of took anything fur being around Miss Hampton, she said.

Miss Hampton was kind of quiet and sweet and pale looking, and nobody ever thought of talking loud or raising any fuss when she was around.

She had enough money of her own to run herself on, and she kep' to herself a good deal.

She had come to that town from no one knowed where, years ago, and bought that place.

Fur all of her being so gentle and easy and talking with one of them soft, drawly kind of voices, Martha says, no one had ever dared to ast her about herself, though they was a lot of women in that town that was wishful to.
But Martha said she knowed what Miss Hampton's secret was, and she hadn't told no one, neither.