I was tellin' yo' ma so last week.
There's another baby on the way with Jane, you know." "How in the world will she take care of it?
I suppose Charley is just the same ?" "Well, if you ask me, Gabriella, I never was so dead set against Mr.
Charley as the rest of you.

I helped raise Jane from the time she was no higher than that--and I ain't sayin' nothin' against her except that Mr.
Charley ain't half as bad to my mind as she makes him out.

Some men respond to naggin' and some don't--that's what I said to her one day when she broke down and cried on my shoulder--and you've got to be mighty particular when you begin to nag that you're naggin' the right sort.

But she won't listen, not she.

'If I don't tell Charley of his faults, who's goin' to ?' she asks.