"No, Mammy." Linda spoke quite decidedly, "but you know he is a kind of cousin, and I must be as nice to him as possible, besides I like him very much."
"He kain't hol' a can'le to Mr. Berk; he de likenes' young man I uvver see."
"You'll make me jealous if you talk that way," said Linda fondly and to please her Mammy.
Mammy ducked her head and laughed, shaking her head from side to side.
"I'll not go away again if you are going to get so fond of someone else while I am gone," Linda went on with a pretence of pouting.
Mammy fairly doubled up at this. "Ain' it de troof?" she cried. "Law, chile," she continued appeasingly, "I ain't so t'arin' fond o' him; he ain't tall enough."
It was Linda's turn to laugh, and she went back to Miss Ri to repeat Mammy's criticism.