"I do."
"Why, then?"
"Because you don't believe the Lord has made you any promise."
"Oh, yas, I do."
"Oh, no, you don't."
"Wall, I tell you whut it is, Hendricks, no sensible man hankers airter dyin'."
"He does, if the Lord has made him a promise."
"Yas, but he wants ter wait the Lord's own time."
"A good excuse," Hendricks replied. "You want to wait the Lord's own time, an' you hope that the Lord's time will be long."
"Hendricks, you kain't blame er man for wantin' to live."