“I know you weighty for you age. But dat ain’t de quessin when you talk ’bout gettin’ married.”
“Getting married. Ha! ha! ha! Who talks of that?”
“Dat what folks go in lub for. It am de natral consequence.”
“Not always, I think.”
“Wha dey am honest in dar lub.”
“Tell me, Sabby, have you ever been in love?”
“Sabby am a Wess Indy Creole; you no need ask de quessin. Why you ask it, Missa?”
“Because—because my cousin spoke to me about love, this morning, when we were in the covers.”
“Mass Frank? Law! he you speak ’bout lub! Wha’d he say, Missy Blanche?”
“He wanted me to promise I should love him, and be true to him.”