BOY WILLIE: What about that part that say an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth and a life for a life? Ain’t that in there?

DOAKER: What they say down there at the bank, Avery?

AVERY: Oh, they talked to me real nice. I told Berniece . . . they say maybe they let me borrow the money. They done talked to my boss down at work and everything.

DOAKER: That’s what I told Berniece. You working every day you ought to be able to borrow some money.

AVERY: I’m getting more people in my congregation every day. Berniece says she gonna be the Deaconess. I get me my church I can get married and settled down. That’s what I told Berniece.

DOAKER: That be nice. You all ought to go ahead and get married. Berniece don’t need to be by herself. I tell her that all the time.

BERNIECE: I ain’t said nothing about getting married. I said I was thinking about it.

DOAKER: Avery get him his church you all can make it nice.

(To AVERY.)

Berniece said you was coming by to bless the house.

AVERY: Yeah, I done read up on my Bible. She asked me to come by and see if I can get rid of Sutter’s ghost.

BOY WILLIE: Ain’t no ghost in this house. That’s all in Berniece’s head. Go on up there and see if you see him. I’ll give you a hundred dollars if you see him. That’s all in her imagination.

DOAKER: Well, let her find that out then. If Avery blessing the house is gonna make her feel better . . . what you got to do with it?

AVERY: Berniece say Maretha seen him too. I don’t know, but I found a part in the Bible to bless the house. If he is here then that ought to make him go.

BOY WILLIE: You worse than Berniece believing all that stuff. Talking about . . . if he here. Go on up there and find out. I been up there I ain’t seen him. If you reading from that Bible gonna make him leave out of Berniece imagination, well, you might be right. But if you talking about …

DOAKER: Boy Willie, why don’t you just be quiet? Getting all up in the man’s business. This ain’t got nothing to do with you. Let him go ahead and do what he gonna do.

BOY WILLIE: I ain’t stopping him. Avery ain’t got no power to do nothing.

AVERY: Oh, I ain’t got no power. God got the power! God got power over everything in His creation. God can do anything. God say, “As I commandeth so it shall be.” God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. He made the world in six days and rested on the seventh. God’s got a wonderful power. He got power over life and death. Jesus raised Lazareth from the dead. They was getting ready to bury him and Jesus told him say, “Rise up and walk.” He got up and walked and the people made great rejoicing at the power of God. I ain’t worried about him chasing away a little old ghost!