WALTER.
Well, you tell us which one you laks de best and we’ll wipe our mouf (Gesture) and say nothin’. Dem boys been de best of friends all they life, till both of ’em took after you … then good-bye, Katy bar de door!
DAISY.
(Affected innocence) Ain’t they still playin’ and dancin’ together?
LIGE.
Yeah, but that’s ’bout all they do ’gree on these days. That’s de way it is wid men, young and old…. I don’t keer how long they been friends and how thick they been … a woman kin come between ’em. David and Jonather never would have been friends so long if Jonather had of been any great hand wid de wimmen. You ain’t never seen no two roosters that likes one another.
DAISY.
I ain’t tried to break ’em up.
WALTER.
Course you ain’t. You don’t have to. All two boys need to do is to git stuck on de same girl and they done broke up … right now! Wimmen is something can’t be divided equal.
(Re-enter JOE LINDSAY and CLARK with the groceries. DAISY jumps up and grabs the packages.)
LIGE.
(To DAISY) Want some of us … me … to go long and tote yo’ things for you?
DAISY.
(Nervously) Naw, mama is riding her high horse today. Long as I been gone it wouldn’t do for me to come walking up wid nobody. (She exits hurriedly right.)
(All the men watch her out of sight in silence.)
CLARK.
(Sighing) I God, know whut Daisy puts me in de mind of?