Kajii Motojiro's In a castle town (城のある町にて）

[Toritoribe]

Yes. It's from 吐く.

 

[karenk]

I'm almost finishing, so bear with me little longer. I'm lost about this passage:

「吉峰さんのおばさんがあしたお帰りですかて……」信子は何かおかしそうに言葉を杜断(とぎ)らせた。
「あしたお帰りですかて？」母が聞きかえした。
吉峰さんのおばさんに「いつお帰りです。あしたお帰りですか」と訊(き)かれて、信子が間誤(まご)ついて「ええ、あしたお帰りです」と言ったという話だった。母や彼が笑うと、信子は少し顔を赧(あか)くした。

I can't get what they are laughing about, I know that it has something to do with the expression 帰りですかて but why? What is wrong/strange about the way Nobuko answered the question or is it the way the question was made by Ms Yoshimine?

 

[Toritoribe]

Because Nobuko used the honorifics お帰りです for her own action. As you know, the speaker can't use honorifics for their in-group members including themselves. She should have answered to the question as ええ、あした帰ります instead. That's why they laughed.

 

[karenk]

It is funny how everything is so obvious after you mention it...
Thank you!