<TITLE>15. Par 61-63</TITLE>L-61 I stepped in the door with my hat off, with all my Sunday manners. My, I was just best that I knowed how to act. And I said, "Sure is warm, isn't it? My." Just going.
She said, "Yeah, I'll be ready just in a few minutes."
And so her mother come in, and she spoke just as nice. And I thought, "Oh, oh. She never got that letter. Uh-huh."
So then I got feeling pretty good. And so, I went on down; we went to church, and she said, "Let's just walk to church tonight instead of going in the car."
I thought, "Oh, oh. She got it." Ha...?...
So we went down and walked to church. I never heard a word Doctor Davis said that night. He preached and preached, and I was setting there thinking, "Yep, this is my last date. She'll tell me as soon we get out here, 'That's all off now. I got your letter, and that's... '" You know how...?... think, you know. You keep thinking, it'll be a realizing to you after while, you know.

L-62 I could just hear her saying this was all, and I thought. "Oh, isn't she pretty. Isn't she a nice lady. Don't I hate to hear this time come." I didn't even hear what the preacher was saying.
After the service was over, we started walking on down home. She never said nothing. I go along. When we come out from under the trees, you know, the moon shining bright. And I'd look over in those dark eyes, you know. And I said, "I hate to hear her say it, but I--I..."
After while I got pretty brave. I thought, "She never got the letter. It just stuck in the box; that's all." Got to breathing better. I said, "She'd done named it to me before now, if she'd have got that letter." So I was going along, you know, feeling pretty good then. And I was walking right along.
We was walking along, she said, "Billy."
And I said, "Yes."
She said, "I got your letter." Oh... Oh, my. And then she just walked on, never said a thing.
I said, "You did?"
She said, "Uh-huh." That's all. Just went walking... You know how a woman can do, just--just keep you in suspense, you know. She said... Just walked on, never said a thing.
And I said, "Uh... Hmmph... Well, uh... Well, uh, did you read it?"
She said, "Uh-huh." Oh, she'd got it.
I said, "Did you read all of it?"
She said, "Uh-huh." That's all she said, just kept on.
And I thought, "Oh, girl, do something and...?... kill me." And just on like that. And she just kept on going like that. And after while, oh, I said, "What'd you think about it?"
She said, "It was all right."
Well, we got married...?... We got married; that was it. So...

L-63 But one more thing. When she was... I remember she told me I had to ask her mother for her. Oh, my. I said, "Honey, look. Let--let's you and I make an agreement. See, we're supposed to be fifty-fifty on these things. You ask your mother, and I'll ask your daddy."
She said, "All right. Very well."
I said, "That's all right."
And so, I thought I could get by pretty well with Charlie, 'cause I'd... He liked me real well. And I... He understood me more.


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