These gave a noisy greeting.

Rand put money into the hands of the slaves and sent them away happy to the tumble-down quarter behind the house.

The white man took his leave, and Mammy Chloe and Hannah retired to the kitchen, where supper was in preparation.

Rand and Jacqueline entered together the clean, bare rooms.
Later, when Hannah's supper had been praised and barely touched, the two came again to the porch, and presently, hand in hand, moved down the steps, and over the dry summer grass to the mimosa at the gate.

Here they turned, and in the gathering dusk looked back at the house, the sleeping pines, and all the shadowy surrounding landscape.
"Hear the frogs in the marsh!" said Rand.