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Updated: June 28, 2025
What sort of surprise would Zuba and I plan? She's had one surprise in the last six weeks and that ought to be enough. Laban's droppin' in unexpected was surprise enough to keep you satisfied, wasn't it, Zuba? I never saw anybody more surprised than you was that night in the kitchen. Ho! ho!" Azuba smiled grimly. "A few more surprises like that," she observed, "and I'll be surprised to death.
"I don't know but what I did forget myself, Serena," he replied. "I know I had a good time and never thought about my clothes after the first ten minutes. Could you hear 'em laughin'? I was tellin' em' about Azuba's goin' to the movin' pictures then." His wife was shocked. "And Azuba is our cook," she said, "and they know it. I don't know what sort of servants they think we have.
There was a spruce, swept, and garnished look to the establishment; as Azuba said when she first saw it after her return, it looked as if it had had a shave and a hair cut. In other words, the Metropolitan Store appeared wide awake and prosperous, as if it was making money which it was. It was not making a great deal, of course, as yet. This was the dullest season of the year.
I MUST. You understand, don't you?" Gertrude said she understood perfectly and her mother hurried to the kitchen, where she ate lukewarm fried fish and apple pie, while Azuba washed the dishes and prophesied darkly concerning "dyspepsy."
Of course they could leave the house. Azuba would take care of that, just as she always did when they were away. As for the store, Nathaniel would be glad to remain as manager indefinitely if they wanted him. Surely he had done splendidly with it while they were in Boston. He had.
They had scarcely risen from the table when the doorbell rang. Azuba heard it and made her entrance from the kitchen. She had remembered this time to shed the offending apron, but she carried it in her hand. "I'm a-goin'," she declared; "I'm a-goin', soon's ever I can." She started for the sitting-room, but the captain stepped in front of her. "You stay right where you are," he ordered.
Azuba was regarding him with a surprise in which respect was strongly mingled. "You're welcome," she said drily. "It's good riddance to bad rubbish, that's what I call it. But," her surprise getting the better of her judgment, "I must say I ain't seen you behave I mean " She stopped, the judgment returning. But Captain Dan read her thoughts and answered them.
Theirs was a curious sort of married life. "We is kind of independent, Labe and me," said Azuba. "He often says to me that is, as often as we're together, which ain't often he says to me, he says, 'Live where you want to, Zuby, he says, 'and if you want to move, move!
When I get ashore I can hunt you up. We don't write many letters because time each get t'other's, the news is so plaguey old 'tain't news at all. You Dotts seem more like home folks to me than anybody else, so I stick to you. I presume likely I shall till I die." Azuba entered the store in the way in which she did most things, with a flurry and a slam.
Colonel Sprowle, who, you remember, was a Jordan, had nipped the Colonel's statement in the middle of the word Mr. Peckham finished, with a look that jerked him like one of those sharp twitches women keep giving a horse when they get a chance to drive one. Mr. and Mrs. Crane, Miss Ada Azuba, and Miss Mahala Crane made their entrance.
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