"They are your neighbors."

"Oh, is that the way they are neighborly in the city? Set down and
talk about nothing for ten minutes and then go home. Well, I don't
see as it's very fillin'."

"They want to get acquainted."

"Well, why don't they stay a while and git acquainted? We jest git
started to talkin' when they go away. Where I lived when a neighbor
come to see you, they brought their sewin' and spent the afternoon.
You can't git acquainted settin' opposite each other and wonderin'
what to say. Why, they all look when they git ready to go, 'Well,
I've done my duty; thank goodness it's over!'"

Daphne laughed.

"You must go and return the calls."

"You mean that I must go to their houses and do what they done--set
ten minutes and ask them about the weather and the opera and
symphonies? I don't know nothin' about them things at all."

"You needn't ask them about the opera, but you must return their
calls."

Drusilla shook her head.

"No, I won't do it."