IV - Zizi––––––––
“WHERE is she?” Milly asked of Hester, as, more out of curiosity than hospitality she went to the kitchen.
“Well! Mis’ Landon, I never see such a thing in all my born days! She slid out here like she was on roller-skates! ‘Hester?’ she says, smilin’, and with that she settled herself for good and all, ’sif she’d been born an’ brought up here! She slid to the cupboard, and picked out the tea caddy, and took down a little teapot, and in a jiffy, she’d snatched up the b’ilin’ teakettle, and was settin’ at that there table, drinkin’ her tea! I got her out some cakes, and by then she was a-cuttin’ bread an’ butter! Never’ve I seen her like!”
“Did she trouble you?”
“Land, no, ma’am! She waits on herself, but so quick, you’d think she was a witch!”
“Where is she now?”
“Wel
