Minerva moved a little closer.
"Yas, honey, I knows what 'tis, but I'se jes' waitin' ter hear it."
He cleared his throat and tried to begin his speech in a friendly business-like way:
"Yassam, I gwine tell yer sho——"
He turned to face her and to his horror found her lips so close she had evidently placed them in position for the first kiss.
He stopped appalled, fidgeted, looked the other way and stammered:
"H-hit sho is powful warm ter-day, m'am!"
"Tain't so much de heat, Brer Andy," she responded tenderly, "as 'tis de humility dat's in de air!"
Andy turned, looked into her smiling face for a moment and they both broke into a loud laugh while he repeated:
"Yassam, de humility—dat's hit! De humility dat's in de air!"