QUOTE : Clay said, “Okay, you can come on one condition. . .” “Anything,” Sally said, clapping her hands together joyfully. “If you come, you gotta call me ‘Pa.’ ” Clay tried to sound stern, but a grin broke out on his face as he said it. Sally’s eyes got as bright and round as double eagle coins. For a second she looked so awestruck Clay was afraid she was going to swoon or something. Then she said fervently, “I’d be right proud to call you ‘Pa,’ Pa.” “Can we call you ‘Pa,’ too?” Beth asked. Clay drawled, “Well, I reckon that’s what I am now, your pa, so I’d say you’d better get to calling me that.