THE FIRST ACT
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Joe
What’s that?
Father McKee
A French expression meanin’ “Sufficient unto the day.”
Joe
What of it? If folks is bent on makin’ mistakes, an’ you can’t stop ’em, let ’em go ahead, that’s what I say. I don’t want nobody hatin’ my guts for bein’ too dam’ right all the time, see? Not bein’ a priest, I aim to get along with folks. ‘That way, when they’re in wrong, I can be some use.
Father McKee
That ain’t in accord with the teachin’s of Jesus.
Joe
A helluva lot you an’ me know about the teachin’s of Jesus!
Father McKee
Joe, if you ain’t goin’ to be rev’rent . . .
Joe
I’m talkin’ now.
