Myers. Now don’t insult me!
Brightly. Oh, get out! You are as sensitive as a Yankee nigger stealer. (Enter D’Arneaux R.)
D’A. Good morning, gentlemen. Brightly, please say to my mother, pressing business calls me to Charleston, at once.
Brightly. The devil! What is up now?
D’A. The last dispatches announce that the bombardment of Sumter has commenced.
Brightly. Jest as I expected.
D’A. I enter the army tonight, Capt. Hood, may I expect to enter under your command?
Hood. Sorry, but my company is full. Everything is full.
Brightly. Why not stick to the Regulators? You got a commission there?
D’A. Then I will return to Creelsboro tonight, take leave of my mother in the morning, then hie for the frontier.