"Why? Is education an affectation?"
"Oh! so you call the rest of us uneducated?"
"For Heaven's sake, no! You know too much, if anything. But what has that to do with Miss Terriberry?"
Because their minds were at such loggerheads their feet could not keep measure. They dropped out of the dance and sought the porch, while Tudie raged on:
"She has no right to put on airs. Her father is no better than mine. Who is she, anyway, that she should say 'dahnce' and 'cahn't' and 'chahmed'?"
Orson was amazed at the depths of bitterness stirred up by a mere question of pronunciation. He answered, softly: "Some of the meekest people in the world use the soft 'a.' I say 'dahnce.'"
"Oh, but you can't help saying it."
"Yes, I could if I tried."
"But you were born where everybody talks like that. Em was born out here."
"She has traveled, though."