And then I thinks to myself I better not butt in.

Fur Miss Hampton has likely got her own reasons fur keeping away from her folks, or else she wouldn't do it.

Anyhow, it's none of MY affair to bring the subject up to 'em.

It looks to me like one of them things George has been gassing about--one of them things that has settled itself, and it ain't fur me to meddle and unsettle it.
It set me to thinking about Martha, too.

Not that I hadn't thought of her lots of times.