Miss Pipkin looked oddly at her lover. “Be they engaged?”
“They was, but I guess they ain’t.”
“What do you mean?”
“Jim came nigh sp’iling things last night. Mack said they’d call it all off till he found out more about his people. He was ’feared from what Jim had said to him that he had no right to love Beth. I cal’late he see that it 382 was right enough to go ahead afore I got through with him this morning.”
“Josiah, he’ll marry us, won’t he?”
“You just bet he will!”
“Ain’t it funny he never said nothing about being glad we was engaged?”
“We ain’t told him.”
“But he saw.”
“Script’re says something about having eyes and seeing not, and having ears and hearing not. Mack’s as nigh to obeying the sayings of Script’re as any one I know.”