My Favorite Wife Page #6

He stood up straight and tall like me

He told the truth about that tree

He was no coward, oh, no, not he

- That's great. Where'd you learn that one?

- Oh, around.

Did you know any pieces

when you were little?

Yes, I used to know a few. Let's see.

Oh, here's one.

In old Kentuck, where I was born

There ain't no Yanks and there ain't no corn

But the gals and the horses can't be beat

To live down South is sure a treat

How come you talk like that?

- Y'all never heard anybody talk like that?

- No. Did it take long to learn it?

No. Everybody talks like that

down where I come from.

Even your mother.

She did?

- Before she drowned?

- Of course. Nobody talks after they drown.

Sometimes they do.

Well, I mean, they're not really drowned.

People just think they are,

but they're not, see?

My mother wouldn't do

anything silly like that.

- Like what?

- Talk after she drowned. That's ridiculous.

Yes, isn't it?

- Know any more pieces?

- It's getting late. Get ready for dinner.

- Already?

- Not yet.

- Come, come, come.

- Go on, Timmy.

- See you later.

- You too, Chinch.

Go on, darling.

Well.

- Hello, Chinch.

- Hello.

How are you?

Oh, you're getting heavy.

- Hello, Dad.

- Tim, stick them up.

What'd I tell you? Keep them high.

- Hello.

- Hello, Miss Bates.

- How are you?

- Fine, thank you.

He's brought her home.

- Don't you suppose he's told her?

- I guess not.

- Perhaps it's better if you weren't here.

- Why should I leave?

- Don't you see? lt'll be a little awkward.

- I know. I know.

Tell her I'm an old friend.

From the South.

Why don't you wash up?

Isn't it dinnertime?

- It's not 6:
00 yet.

- Now, don't argue. In you go.

- What'd I do?

- In you go.

Yes, sir.

Why didn't you tell them

I'm their new mother?

Didn't I do that?

Oh, I didn't want to confuse them.

- Confuse them?

- I mean, I'm confused.

Driving and all that, you know.

Come on. Let's go in.

Aren't you going to carry me

across the threshold?

It's good luck.

Oh, sure, sure.

Hiya, Nicholas, honey!

Surprised?

- Y'all mind if I kiss the bridegroom?

- Not at all.

Just one big, sisterly kiss.

There.

She's visiting with us.

Her mother and I went to school

together in Virginia.

I just feel like she's my own daughter.

- How nice.

- Isn't he the sweetest thing?

I used to just adore him.

He was the darlingest boy you ever did see.

But faithless.

Just like a bumblebee

going from flower to flower.

Oh, I was only fooling, honey.

I come from a fooling family.

My great-grandfather Lucius...

...was the first man to give the governor

of North Carolina the hotfoot.

- You've been married before, haven't you?

- Why, no, of course not.

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