240 17. Sweet Potato Pie by Eugenia Collier

Buddy knew how much work and effort Carlie and his family would put into looking respectable and honouring him. Buddy didn't want them to work that hard or feel beneath him, "I didn’t tell Charley I would be at a professional meeting in New York and would surely visit; he and Bea would have spent days in fixing up, and I would have had to by company."