When they got back into the car Ruth suggested that the girls take the folding seats in the tonneau again, and Mr. Chambers quietly acquiesced in this arrangement. As they took their places Peggy gave her friend the benefit of a long, significant wink, and then subsided into the silence that encompassed them all during the remainder of the long drive home.
CHAPTER XI
Little Eva
I come to tell you that my mother's sick," Moses said. "She's hollering something awful. She said to tell Miss Laury Ann, but I can't find her nowhere."
"She's out with Grandfather," Elizabeth said, "and I don't know when she'll be back."
"Maybe Marmer'll be dead by that time. She's kind of turned green already."
"She can't be going to die."
"I arsked her was she going to die, and she said she guessed she was. I dunno nothing about it."