DOAKER: (Calls.) Boy Willie!

(LYMON crosses to the stairs and looks up. BOY WILLIE enters from the stairs.)

BOY WILLIE: Hey Doaker, what’s wrong with her? Berniece, what’s wrong? Who was you talking to?

DOAKER: She say she seen Sutter’s ghost standing at the top of the stairs.

BOY WILLIE: Seen what? Sutter? She ain’t seen no Sutter.

BERNIECE: He was standing right up there.

BOY WILLIE: (Entering on the stairs.) That’s all in Berniece’s head. Ain’t nobody up there. Go on up there, Doaker.

DOAKER: I’ll take your word for it. Berniece talking about what she seen. She say Sutter’s ghost standing at the top of the steps. She ain’t just make all that up.

BOY WILLIE: She up there dreaming. She ain’t seen no ghost.

LYMON: You want a glass of water, Berniece? Get her a glass of water, Boy Willie.

BOY WILLIE: She don’t need no water. She ain’t seen nothing. Go on up there and look. Ain’t nobody up there but Maretha.

DOAKER: Let Berniece tell it.

BOY WILLIE: I ain’t stopping her from telling it.

DOAKER: What happened, Berniece?

BERNIECE: I come out my room to come back down here and Sutter was standing there in the hall.

BOY WILLIE: What he look like?

BERNIECE: He look like Sutter. He look like he always look.

BOY WILLIE: Sutter couldn’t find his way from Big Sandy to Little Sandy. How he gonna find his way all the way up here to Pittsburgh? Sutter ain’t never even heard of Pittsburgh.

DOAKER: Go on, Berniece.

BERNIECE: Just standing there with the blue suit on.

BOY WILLIE: The man ain’t never left Marlin County when he was living . . . and he’s gonna come all the way up here now that he’s dead?

DOAKER: Let her finish. I want to hear what she got to say.

BOY WILLIE: I’ll tell you this. If Berniece had seen him like she think she seen him she’d still be running.

DOAKER: Go on, Berniece. Don’t pay Boy Willie no mind.

BERNIECE: He was standing there . . . had his hand on top of his head. Look like he might have thought if he took his hand down his head might have fallen off.

LYMON: Did he have on a hat?

BERNIECE: Just had on that blue suit . . . I told him to go away and he just stood there looking at me . . . calling Boy Willie’s name.

BOY WILLIE: What he calling my name for?

BERNIECE: I believe you pushed him in the well.

BOY WILLIE: Now what kind of sense that make? You telling me I’m gonna go out there and hide in the weeds with all them dogs and things he got around there . . . I’m gonna hide and wait till I catch him looking down his well just right . . . then I’m gonna run over and push him in. A great big old three-hundred-and-forty-pound man.

BERNIECE: Well, what he calling your name for?