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An Aquaintance With Darkness

            The story begins when Emily hears a knocking at her door. She goes and answer it since she and her mother are the only one's left in the house. Emily mother is very sick so Emily takes care of her. While Emily walked to the door she hoped a border would be at it, but she knew it would probably Johnny surrat. She had guessed correctly. Emily was filled with so much joy to see Johnny. She hadn't seen him since a week before the end of March. During that week Johnny had taken Emily and her friend honora to Ford's Theater.
             Before letting Johnny in to the house she and him had a small argument. Johnny asked Emily what she was going to do. She replied by saying she was going to take care of her mama until she died. After that she would go to Richmond to live her aunt. Johnny told Emily not to go to Richmond. He told her this because Richmond had been destroyed. Johnny also told Emily he was leaving Washington and might not come back. He told her the war was ending. Emily really didn't care about the war, because her father died fighting in it. Before he left Johnny asked Emily if she would go live with his mother, he alsogave her twenty gold pieces and a number to call for one of his friends to bring her mother some medicine.
             Weeks went by until finally Emily mother died. Before she died Emily's mother made her promise not to let her uncle valentine touch her body. She also made her promise not to let her uncle persuade her to live with him. Emily's mother disliked her brother in law a lot. After her mother died the Paul bearers and the undertaker came. They took her measurements to make sure her steel coffin was the right size.
             In the middle of the story came the eulogy for Emily mother. It was good. People brought lots of gossip. The next day Emily had awaken to a house that had no food. She had remembered Maude uncle valentine's maid taking all the food. The only edible items left in the house were some hard biscuits and some tea bags.


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