My companion was several places removed from her at the other side of the table.

How could she have meant to include him?
And how could she have expected me to say how he took his after-dinner coffee?
At last, to reassure myself, I wrote to the wisest, cleverest, most trustworthy lady in the South, and asked her what it all meant.
"Well," she wrote back from Atlanta, "I will tell you, but I am not sure that you will understand me.

The answer is: _She did, but she didn't_.
She looked at and spoke to you and, of course, by all rules of logic she could not have been intending to make you Morg's keeper in the matter of coffee dressing.

_But_ she never would have said 'you-all' if Morg had not been in her mind as joined with you.

The response, according to her thought-connotation, would have been from you _and_ from him." This was disconcerting.