had stayed a little longer, for Rose
that day had been good to let Melanctha begin to do things for her.
Melanctha then left her and Melanctha met Sam Johnson who stopped a
minute to speak kindly to her.

The next day Rose Johnson would not let Melanctha come in to her. Rose
stood on the steps, and there she told Melanctha what she thought now
of her.

"I guess Melanctha it certainly ain't no ways right for you to come
here no more just to see me. I certainly don't Melanctha no ways like
to be a trouble to you. I certainly think Melanctha I get along better
now when I don't have nobody like you are, always here to help me, and
Sam he do so good now with his working, he pay a little girl something
to come every day to help me. I certainly do think Melanctha I don't
never want you no more to come here just to see me." "Why Rose, what
I ever done to you, I certainly don't think you is right Rose to be so
bad now to me." "I certainly don't no ways Melanctha Herbert think you
got any right ever to be complaining the way I been acting to you. I
certainly never do think Melanctha Herbert, you hear me, nobody
ever been more patient to you than I always been to like you, only
Melanctha, I hear more things now so awful bad about you, everybody
always is telling to me what kind of a way you always have been doing
so much, and me always so good to you, and you never no ways, knowing
how to be honest to me. No Melanctha it ain't ever in me, not to want
you to have good luck come to you, and I like it real well Melanctha
when you some time learn how to act the way it is decent and right
for a girl to be doing, but I don't no ways ever like it the kind of
things everybody tell me now about you. No Melanctha, I can't never
any more trust you. I certainly am real sorry to have never any more
to see you, but there ain't no other way, I ever can be acting to
you. That's all I ever got any more to say to you now Melanctha." "But
Rose, deed; I certainly don't know, no more than the dead, nothing I
ever done to make you act so to me. Anybody say anything bad about
me Rose, to you, they just a pack of liars to you, they certainly
is Rose, I tell you true. I certainly never done nothing I ever been
ashamed to tell you. Why you act so bad to me Rose. Sam he certainly
don't think ever like you do, and Rose I always do everything I can,
you ever want me to do for you." "It ain't never no use standing there
talking, Melanctha Herbert. I just ca