Great day! An’ membah de fair down at—er—lessee—Manassas?
LUCY BELLE (nodding)
Eat chicken an’ duck an’ co’n pone an’ ice cream till I neahly bus’! Ride on de merry-go-roun’—shoot de shoots—an’ sing an’ dance till I kain’t hardly stan’ up—! Den dey was preachin’ ovah in de grove at night—(She breaks off—lost in the romantic memory of it.)
CHICK
Bet yo’ ain’ had no times like dem since!
LUCY BELLE (deprecatingly)
I was jes’ a kid den.
CHICK
Dere’s gwine ter be a dance at de Mawnin’ Star termorrer night.
LUCY BELLE