JANE
[More impatiently as the argument advances.]
You been pass the store.
ANNIE
[Sullenly.]
You sent me to the store and that's where Ah've been.
JANE
Ah tell you, you been pass the store! What's that mud doin' on your shoes if you ain't been pass the store? Ain't no mud like that 'tween here and the store!
[Annie is silent.] What's the matter with you—can't you talk?
ANNIE
Ah walked down the road a little piece with Jack.
JANE
Ah sent you to the store! Ah didn't send you to walk with Jack!
ANNIE
We wanted to talk.
JANE
Talk about what? [Annie is silent.] What you doin' cryin'?
ANNIE
Ah ain't cryin'.
JANE
You been cryin'! Can't Ah see where the tears been runnin' down your face?
[Annie looks down.]
Now what you been cryin' about?
[Annie is silent. ]
Don't you hear me talkin' to you?
[Annie is still silent. Pause. Almost in tears herself.]
