"Gawd, how I wish we was going together, little sister! Leavin' you is just like leavin' my heart. There's nobody I love like you, Cottie."
"Della darlin', look at Lily—she went alone."
"I—I ain't afraid—you got the best voice of us two, but I'll make the way for you, dearie. I'll make it easier for you to come."
"It won't be long."
"If I could only have got his name that time on the train, Cottie!"
"You got Lily's boardin'-house, dearie. Ain't that something?"
"Oh, darlin'—him layin' in there!"
"Don't begin that again, dearie."
"Listen, Cottie—listen—that can't be the six-thirty accommodation already, is it? It ain't the funeral-day already, is it?"
"Yes, dearie; but it's a long way off. See, it's just gettin' light through the crack in the shade."