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Their Eyes Were Watching God 4. 107"You crazy thing! Is dat whut you come here for at daybreak?""Sho is. You needs tellin' and showin', and dat's whut Ah'mdoin'. Ah picked some strawberries too, Ah figgered you might like.""Tea Cake, Ah 'dare Ah don't know whut tuh make outayou. You'se so crazy. You better lemme fix you some breakfast.""Ain't got time. Ah got uh job uh work. Gottuh be back inOrlandah at eight o'clock. See yuh later, tell you straighter."He bolted down the walk and was gone. But that night whenshe left the store, he was stretched out in the hammock on theporch with his hat over his face pretending to sleep. She calledhim. He pretended not to hear. He snored louder. She went tothe hammock to shake him and he seized and pulled her in withhim. After a little, she let him adjust her in his arms and laid therefor a while."Tea Cake, Ah don't know 'bout you, but Ah'm hongry,come on let's eat some supper."They went inside and their laughter rang out first from thekitchen and all over the house.Janie awoke next morning by feeling Tea Cake almost kissingher breath away. Holding her and caressing her as if he feared shemight escape his grasp and fly away. Then he must dress hurriedlyand get to his job on time. He wouldn't let her get him anybreakfast at all. He wanted her to get her rest. He made her staywhere she was. In her heart she wanted to get his breakfast forhim. But she stayed in bed long after he was gone.So much had been breathed out by the pores that Tea Cakestill was there. She could feel him and almost see him buckingaround the room in the upper air. After a long time of passivehappiness, she got up and opened the window and let Tea Cakeleap forth and mount to the sky on a wind. That was the beginningof things.