“I be.”
“How long have you been so employed?”
“Twenty-five year this coming July.”
“You were at the house the evening and night of the tenth of May?”
“Yep!”
“Did you wait on the table at supper that evening?”
“I passed the victuals, ef that’s what ye mean by wait;” with an air of defiance.
“Who were at supper?”
“Mis Parlin an’ Mr. Wing.”
“Did either of them seem to you depressed or preoccupied?”