JIM. [Comfortingly.] Well, he's a city chap, and Kate's so smart about them things. Joe, how old is Kate?
JOE. Twenty, ain't she, ma?
MRS. VERNON. [In street door.] Lor, no—we ain't been married but nineteen.
JOE. Seems longer'n that to me.
JIM looks at him, crossing to melodeon, shaking head.
JIM. How old is she, Mrs. Vernon?
MRS. VERNON. They's fourteen months difference 'tween her an' Lizbeth.
JIM looks at JOE again.
JIM. Well, I've knowed her so long, she always seems jes' a little child to me—but Kate's old enough to be thinkin' o' gettin' married, ain't she?
MRS. VERNON. I was mother of two young uns when I was as old as Kate.