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Women find things out first, then they tell the men—otherwise the men wouldn’t find out anything—then the servants find out, and the children last of all. And sometimes children don’t ever find things out, even after they’ve grown up. There are secrets that die.
Mama and James and I decided that we wanted land, so whenever we see it coming down the road we flag it down and hop on.”
Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual circumstance is discovered to be an established fact, they will usually accept it without rancor or judgment as part of the normal order of things.
