"Yes, sir." Caddy said. "Come on, Benjy.
We're going out doors again." She buttoned my coat and we went toward the door.
"Are you going to take that baby out without his overshoes." Mother said. "Do you want to make him sick, with the house full of company."
"I forgot." Caddy said. "I thought he had them on.
We went back.
"You must think." Mother said.
Hold still now Versh said.
He put my overshoes on. "Someday I'll be gone, and you'll have to think for him." Now stomp Versh said. "Come here and kiss Mother, Benjamin."
Caddy took me to Mother's chair and Mother took my face in her hands and then she held me against her.
"My poor baby." she said.
She let me go. "You and Versh take good care of him, honey."
"Yessum." Caddy said.
We went out.
Caddy said, "You needn't go, Versh.
I'll keep him for a while."
"All right." Versh said. "I aint going out in that cold for no fun." He went on and we stopped in the hall and Caddy knelt and put her arms around me and her cold bright face against mine.
She smelled like trees.
"You're not a poor baby.
Are you. Are you.
You've got your Caddy.
Haven't you got your Caddy."
Cant you shut up that moaning and slobbering, Luster said.
Aint you shamed of yourself, making all this racket.
We passed the carriage house, where the carriage was.
It had a new wheel.
"Git in, now, and set still until your maw come." Dilsey said.
She shoved me into the carriage.
T.P. held the reins. "Clare I dont see how come Jason wont get a new surrey." Dilsey said. "This thing going to fall to pieces under you all some day.
Look at them wheels."
Mother came out, pulling her veil down.
She had some flowers.
"Where's Roskus." she said.
"Roskus cant lift his arms, today." Dilsey said. "T.P. can drive all right."
"I'm afraid to." Mother said. "It seems to me you all could furnish me with a driver for the carriage once a week. It's little enough I ask, Lord knows."
"You know just as well as me that Roskus got the rheumatism too bad to do more than he have to, Miss Cahline." Dilsey said. "You come on and get in, now.
T.P. can drive you just as good as Roskus."
"I'm afraid to." Mother said. "With the baby."
Dilsey went up the steps.
"You calling that thing a baby." she said.
She took Mother's arm. "A man big as T.P.
Come on, now, if you going."
"I'm afraid to." Mother said.
They came down the steps and Dilsey helped Mother in. "Perhaps it'll be the best thing, for all of us." Mother said.
"Aint you shamed, talking that way." Dilsey said. "Dont you know it'll take more than a eighteen year old nigger to make Queenie run away.
She older than him and Benjy put together.
And dont you start no projecking with Queenie, you hear me. T.P.
If you dont drive to suit Miss Cahline, I going to put Roskus on you.
He aint too tied up to do that."
"Yessum." T.P. said.
"I just know something will happen." Mother said. "Stop, Benjamin.