Do dey? ’Bout ev’y night. (In ardent admiration.) Yo’s de bes’ lil’ dancer I evah knowed.

LUCY BELLE

LUCY BELLE

Go ’long! (She drops down into a chair, gives a little sigh and stares abstractedly into space.)

CHICK

CHICK

Membah de time we goes down ter Rivahview an’ comin’ home de ole boat gits stuck on dem mud flats dere by de Eastern Branch—?

LUCY BELLE

LUCY BELLE

’Deed I does! (In ecstatic memory.) We dance on de deck—in de moonlight—

CHICK (with a rapturous chuckle)

CHICK

Ole Beverly Johnson chase Mink Hall wid a razor—

LUCY BELLE (laughing)

LUCY BELLE

Mink jump ovahboard an’ swim ter shore!

CHICK (laughing)

CHICK

Great day! An’ membah de fair down at—er—lessee—Manassas?

LUCY BELLE (nodding)

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