Zekiel.
I certainly do wish you'd let me come up them steps 'stead ob you, Mis' Betsy.
Betsy.
Why, you dear old darky, you stay where you're safe.
Zekiel.
Yo've come all cross de ocean an' yo' still alive. Don' want nothin' to happen to yo' no sooner'n yo' get on tere firm. When yo' come home las' night, I cut'ny was glad to see yo'—an' Mis' Angelica, too—and Mars' Ham'ton has been jimipin' about lak a schoolboy evah since.
Betsy.
Now—catch! [Drops curtain.] And remember, Zekiel, when you get married and have a house of your own
Zekiel.
[Yapping.] Me git married! Ha, ha! Yo' sure
is amusin'. Guess if I evah get mar'd, I won't have nothin' ob ma own.
Betsy.
Remember if you have lace curtains . . . you have clean ones.
Angelica.
Why, Betsy Hamilton! [Closing door and to c.] I called to see if you were up! I see you are!
