Ef you please, miss, you has got to make me a promise--you has got to say that you will never tell, not to Miss Primrose nor to Miss Jasmine, nor to no one, that you've seen me in this room.

I don't wish it to be known.

I has my reasons, and _whatever_ happens, you are never to tell.

Ef you make me the promise true and faithful, why you shall have the sweeties, and I'll stick up for you, and be your friend through thick and thin.

You'll have Dove for your friend, Miss Daisy, and I can tell you he ain't a friend to be lightly put aside.