"You know that Southern ladies never teach."
"Then she will never need the Greatest Common Divisor. I have known many thousands of human beings, and none but teachers ever have the least use for the Greatest Common Divisor."
"But she needs to do things that she dislikes. We all do."
I smiled at the memory of a self-willed little bare foot on a log years ago.
"I shall see that my grape arbor does not further interfere with
Miss Sylvia's progress towards perfection."
"Why didn't you wish us to be your neighbors?"
"I didn't know that you were the right sort of people."
"Are we the right sort?"
"The value of my land has almost been doubled."
It is a pleasure to know that you approve of us on those grounds. Will the value of our land rise also, do you think? And why do you suppose we objected to you as a neighbor?"