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[As they disappear]: Good-bye, ma’am.

Good-bye. See you later. [Awkward silence.] I ain’t sorry they went. I think they ought to have done it sooner and left us to get acquainted. They got me all fussed up staring that way. I just couldn’t think of what to say next. A girl gets kind of fussed, coming off like this to marry a man she ain’t never seen. I was a mile up in the air. I—I guess I must have sounded kind of fresh. I wouldn’t want you to think I was fresh.

I didn’t.

I’m glad you didn’t. You know, I like it up here already. You got it fixed up so cute and—[She discovers the cake.] and that. It was awful nice of you to think of that. And the view! Is them all vines?

Yeah.

[An awkward pause.]