"Still single...."
"Thought she was engaged to be married when I was here last year?"
"Oh, that fellow was no good!"
"What was the matter?"
"What's the matter with lots of these nigga' men 'round Chicago? They can't keep a wife a posing on State Street."
"Humph!"
"It's the truth!"
"And how about the women? They seem to be fond of passing along to be posed at...."
"Oh, you're mean," she pouted. Then: "Are you married yet?"
"Oh, lordy! How could I get married? Not thirty minutes ago I saw the first colored girl I have seen in a year!"