'Where they treat me as if I was somebody.' "'So you was at the store the whole evenin' ?' she asks.
"'Course I was,' says I.'Where else would I be ?' "She looked at me hard, and her face sort of set.

She didn't answer, but took up the sewin' in her lap and went to work on it.

I remember she dropped it once, and Bennie D.jumped to pick it up for her, quick as a wink.

I set down in the rockin' chair and took the Gloucester paper.

But I didn't really read.