I splashed some water on my face. Eporner May I take your coats?”
“You must be doin’ very well,” Missus Brown told me, “having a servant an’ all.”
“She ain’t a servant,” I said finely findin’ my voice. For no particular reason I thought it a good time to give out the weddin’ bands. Florry wuz good with numbers so she wuz gonna teach that. Ma’s dress wuz tore up to her privates so it looked like they raped her before killin’ her. I asked that the goldsmith cast several gold weddin’ bands. “Is that right, Missus Brown?”
“That’s right.”
“And you’d both earn your keep, right?”
“That’s right.”
“What do you know how to do?”
“Well, I know how to run a household. He went by Simon La Rue there.” Well, Sam’s face turned as white as his bandages.
