Ah! Dialect then. Well, damn, he can't train it out of her then.

He has to laugh at being told he talks weird. He supposes to her ears he did. "Well maybe I'll have to learn how to talk like you sometime." God, no. But he can pretend he might for her sake.

"So now that you've had your chocolate, are you ready to eat more of those eggs and bread or want me to clean that up for you?"