And, knowing what your feelings HAD been, I of course realized that you did not wish us to remain, and so, of course, we are going.

I am sorry, very sorry.

Babbie and I love this little house, and we wish you might have cared to have us stay in it, but--" "Hold on! hold on!" Jed was, for him, almost energetic.

"Mrs.
Armstrong, ma'am, do you mean to tell me you're goin' back to Luretta Smalley's because you think I don't want you to stay?
Is that it, honest truth ?" "Why, of course, it is.

What else ?" "And--and 'tain't because you can't stand me any longer, same as Mother used to say ?" "Can't stand you?
Your mother used to say?
What DO you mean, Mr.
Winslow ?" "I mean--I mean you ain't goin' because I used to wash my face out in the yard, and--and holler and sing mornin's and look so everlastin' homely--and--and be what everybody calls a town crank-- and--" "Mr.Winslow! PLEASE!" "And--and you and Babbie would stay right here if--if you thought I wanted you to ?" "Why, of course.