“Lor’, honey, is you waked up? It was that there man a-making of his noise, getting outn’t his seat. Some people can’t never keep quiet. But, honey, I’m afraid if I moves I might fall on you,” said mammy.
“No, you won’t; we have no jolts here. Guide yourself by the left side of the seat, and I will give you my hand.”
“Yes, honey,” said the old woman, and slowly and carefully she changed her “base,” and safely reached the haven beside her mistress.
“Nurse,” whispered Drusilla, “I have not been asleep.”
“My! haven’t you, honey? Why didn’t you answer me, then?”
“Because I did not wish to talk. That gentleman who got in just the moment before you, is a passenger that was picked up at Drainsville, he is the same person who brought me the bad news yesterday.”
“Don’t say!”
“Hush! speak very low; we are not alone, you know.”
“And to think I never knowed him agin.”
“That is not strange. It is quite too dark for you to have seen his face. I only knew him by his voice.”