Also, she has a roomful of books in the back of her home, and before the secession she would have soirees on her back lawn on the bayou and serve lemonade and read Nathaniel Hawthorne to us. She looked much younger then. I think her worries about mankind have taken their toll. Most of the audience was illiterate, and many couldn’t speak English, but they always seemed the better for the experience. In reality, I have never understood her kind. She doesn’t have a self.
