"Light clothes an' light food are what warm weather calls fo'. You know our blood gets so thick during th' winter" (1269). From what the reader is told of Amanda, she is from the south. She also always seem to remenice in those times. She recalls often how she had many gentleman callers in one day. So when Jim comes over for dinner, her dialect changes and she begins to have a southern accent again. This can show the reader that she wants to be back in the time when she was young, unmarried, and just meeting new men constantly. She obviously misses those times, and this shows that she hasn't changed much since when she was Laura's age.