Cyn. No, I’m not telling anything. You are doing the telling, but it’s what I did.
Hep. What do you know about him?
Cyn. He paid me a month in advance. I don’t need to know any more.
Hep. Well, I’m beat! I never heard the match! Where did he come from, and what did he come for?
Cyn. You will have to ask him a few things yourself. I haven’t known him very long.
Hep. Well, if he’d stayed in my house over night I’ll bet I’d have known.
Cyn. (impatiently). Do you think we sat up all night?
Hep. And do you know, I wuz so upset when Obed told me about you gettin’ some work, an’ he didn’t know what, said it wuz a secret. My land, I thought I should go out o’ my head, I wuz so upset. I forgot to ask him about that family who wuz coming without any furniture. It went clean out o’ my mind until he’d gone out an’ then it come over me all to once. I made one leap for the door and opened my mouth good and wide to yell Obed! An’ jest then a gust o’ wind and rain come round the corner an’ knocked my breath clean down my throat. I thought I wuz a goner fer a second, but the thought o’ them people without any furniture brought me to, but by that time Obed hed gone an’ I don’t know yet who they be.
Cyn. (dryly). That certain is a pity, Hepsy.
Lemuel Sawyer (outside). Hepsy! Hepsy! Be you in there?