Just before day the party wore out. So Tea Cake hurried on back to his new wife. He had done found out how rich people feel and he had a fine guitar and twelve dollars left in his pocket and all he needed now was a great big old hug and kiss from Janie.
“You musta thought yo’ wife was powerful ugly. Dem ugly women dat you paid two dollars not to come in, could get tuh de door. You never even ‘lowed me tuh git dat close.”(1) She pouted.
“Janie, Ah would have give Jacksonville wid Tampa for a jump-back for you to be dere wid me. Ah stated to come git yuh two three time.”
“Well, how come yuh didn’t come git me?"(2)
“Janie, would you have come if Ah did?”
“Sho Ah would. Ah laks fun just as good as you do”
“Janie, Ah wanted tuh, might much , but Ah was skeered .
Too skeered Ah mightlose yuh.” (3)
“Why?”(4)
“Dem wuzn’t no high muckty muchs. Dem wuz railroad hands and dey womenfolks. You ain’t usetuh folks lak dat and Ah wuz skeered you might git all mad and quit me for takin’ you mongst’em. But Ah wanted yuh wid me jus’de same. Befo’ us got married Ah made up mah mind not tuh let you see no commonness in me. When Ah git mad habits on, Ah’d go off and keep it out yo’ sight. ’Tain’t mah notion tuh drag you down wid me.”
“Looka heah, Tea Cake, if you ever go off from me and have a good time lak dat and then come back heah tellin’ me how nice Ah is, Ah specks tuh kill yuh dead. You heah me?”(5)
“So you aims tuh partake wid everything, hunh?”
“Yeah, Tea Cake, don’t keer what it is.”
“Dat’s all Ah wants tuh know. From now on you’se mah wife and mah woman and everything else in de world Ah needs.”(6)
“Ah hope so.”
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