Rosie

Rosie, one of the family servants, seems to have a clear understanding of her employers' characters. In particular, she chastises young Georgie: "You and money! If you ain't rich time you twenty-one, hit will be because the law done abolished money or done abolished you" (265). Rosie, like Emmeline, has to do some of the cooking due to the absence of Grandma and Grandpa's servant, Mandy. Although she grumbles about her work, she performs it conscientiously; at the end of the story, as Georgie tells it, "I began to run toward the house, with Rosie running behind me and hollering You, Georgie! You come back here! But I didn't stop" (287).