Who was it ?" "I cannot answer." "Oh, I reckon you can.

Why did they run off and leave you here ?" "I cannot answer." "Damn you, stop that! Don't try any of your fine airs on me.

Do you know who and what you are ?" She rested one hand on the table in support, and I could note the nervous trembling of the fingers, yet her low voice remained strangely firm.
"I know," she said distinctly, "I am no longer a free white woman; I am a negro, and a slave." "Oh, so you know that, do you?
Then you must also be aware that you are my property.

Perhaps it will be well for you to remember this in answering my questions.

Now tell me who informed you of all this ?" "I cannot answer." "Cannot! You mean you will not.