LYMON: Mostly they be lonely and looking for somebody to spend the night with them. Sometimes it matters who it is and sometimes it don’t. I used to be the same way. Now it got to matter. That’s why I’m here now. Dolly liable not to even recognize me if she sees me again. I don’t like women like that. I like my women to be with me in a nice and easy way. That way we can both enjoy ourselves. The way I see it we the only two people like us in the world. We got to see how we fit together. A woman that don’t want to take the time to do that I don’t bother with. Used to. Used to bother with all of them. Then I woke up one time with this woman and I didn’t know who she was. She was the prettiest woman I had ever seen in my life. I spent the whole night with her and didn’t even know it. I had never taken the time to look at her. I guess she kinda knew I ain’t never really looked at her. She must have known that cause she ain’t wanted to see me no more. If she had wanted to see me I believe we might have got married. How come you ain’t married? It seem like to me you would be married. I remember Avery from down home. I used to call him plain old Avery. Now he Reverend Avery. That’s kinda funny about him becoming a preacher. I like when he told about how that come to him in a dream about them sheep people and them hobos. Nothing ever come to me in a dream like that. I just dream about women. Can’t never seem to find the right one.

BERNIECE: She out there somewhere. You just got to get yourself ready to meet her. That’s what I’m trying to do. Avery’s alright. I ain’t really got nobody in mind.

LYMON: I get me a job and a little place and get set up to where I can make a woman comfortable I might get married. Avery’s nice. You ought to go ahead and get married. You be a preacher’s wife you won’t have to work. I hate living by myself. I didn’t want to be no strain on my mama so I left home when I was about sixteen. Everything I tried seem like it just didn’t work out. Now I’m trying this.

BERNIECE: You keep trying it’ll work out for you.

LYMON: You ever go down there to the picture show?

BERNIECE: I don’t go in for all that.

LYMON: Ain’t nothing wrong with it. It ain’t like gambling and sinning. I went to one down in Jackson once. It was fun.

BERNIECE: I just stay home most of the time. Take care of Maretha.

LYMON: It’s getting kind of late. I don’t know where Boy Willie went off to. He’s liable not to come back. I’m gonna take off these shoes. My feet hurt. Was you in bed? I don’t mean to be keeping you up.