That's all!" She drew back as if to let the intruder pass, but the lady, without moving a muscle, finished the reading of her letter, then stood up quietly and began carefully to draw her handsome cloak over her shoulders.

"Yo' want to know who I am, Mrs.Bunker," she said, arranging the velvet collar under her white oval chin.

"Well, I'm a So'th'n woman from Figinya, and I'm Figinyan first, last, and all the time." She shook out her sleeves and the folds of her cloak.

"I believe in State rights and slavery--if you know what that means.

I hate the North, I hate the East, I hate the West.