VIOLA: Then it must be Lillie.
CHARLIE: No; you silly goose, it's Charlie.
VIOLA: (In disgust.) I thought you said it was a human being?
CHARLIE: Just for that you must sit down on the bench and give me a kiss.
VIOLA: Wait a minute till I go into the house and get a veil. The sunlight hurts my eyes. (She exits at L.)
CHARLIE: (Moving towards R.) That will just give me time to go into the grove and smoke a cigarette. (Exits.)
(Enter CHLORINDA from house. She has a green veil on, which hides her face; she sits down on bench.)
CHLORINDA: Ebery wench on dis plantation has got a fellah 'ceptin me, so I went to a fortune tellah an' she said Ah should sit on dis heah bench ebery day and ah nice fellah would come along. Well, I'se been doing it now for ovah a month an' Ah habent seen no nice fellah yet; in fact, Ah habent seen a fellah of any kind.
(Enter CHARLIE from R.)
CHARLIE: Ah, there, my sugar plum.