when I told her it was true, she dropped the pine splinters out of her hands, and rising to her feet, besought me that I would take her with me. So eagerly she besought me, that I had much difficulty to answer.
"I shall be in a school, Margaret," I said. "I could not have anybody there to wait on me."
"Miss Daisy won't never do everything for herself?"
"Yes, I must," I said. "All the girls do."
"I'd hire out then, Miss Daisy, while you don't want me—I'd be right smart—and I'd bring all my earnin's to you regular. 'Deed I will! Till Miss Daisy want me herself."
I felt my cheeks flush. She would bring her earnings to me. Yes, that was what we were doing.
"'Clar, Miss Daisy, do don't leave me behind! I could take washin' and do all Miss Daisy's things up right smart—don't believe they knows how to do things up there!—I'll come to no good if I don't go with Miss Daisy, sure."
"You can be good here as well as anywhere, Margaret," I said.
"Miss Daisy don' know. Miss Daisy, s'pose the devil walkin' round about a place; think it a nice place fur to be good in?"
"The devil is not in Magnolia more than anywhere else," I said.