Chapters 30-31: In Which Will Catches Up With Miss Love and Aunt Loma

Chapters 30-31:

Will catches up with Miss Love, finding himself calling her a Yankee in his head when she points out the "real truth" about Queenie eating off of a pie pan, and drinking from a mason jar. Will calls it a custom, but Miss Love makes it clear that it's racism, though not using that word, and Will gets defensive. Will is eager to tell that he didn't tell about the McAllister incident, but learn that Miss Love told Grandpa herself, but Grandpa wanted her to stay. As they are getting friendly again, Will tells her that his mom definitely will not go on the buying trip to New York (for the store's inventory).

Will then goes to Aunt Loma, to apologize for the two "bust" stories, expecting her to be furious, but she thought they were hysterical. (She is mad about her stupid husband Uncle Camp, who she always browbeats, because painted the mantle, but doing so around a matchbox, and over a cockroach, a pencil, and a shirt button.) She tells him that he should be a writer, and gives hm a journal she made in college. Now, Will resents her telling him what to do, but he admits that the only reason he can remember this story so well is because he wrote it all down in Aunt Loma's book.